Mama Says

We are in the market for a new couch. Not a fancy, hand tied by vestal virgins from reclaimed Tuscan driftwood furniture, just something decent that the family (er, the WHOLE family) can sit on.
As you can see, we are in desperate need. We currently have a cream colored leather (er, bonded leather [...]

Duct tape.  Whole books have been written on how to use this magical substance for everything from making a wallet to making a laser.  Or maybe that last one was a MacGuyver episode, whatever.
My life is held together with duct tape.

Hit the mailbox on the way out of the driveway?  Duct tape will rescue your [...]

**Update**  We got our van back on Aug. 12, 46 days after the original repair failed.  The mechanic paid for everything, even one item that wasn’t a transmission problem…but 6+ weeks is a ridiculous amount of time.
Gird your loins, mah peeps.  2000 words of complaining coming right up, served with a heaping side of frustration.
This [...]

* If you tell your children they cannot have another apple, and they get one anyway, they will try to hide the evidence.
* An apple core wrapped in a receiving blanket and left for a few days creates a stain that my laundry skills cannot remove.
* If you cloth diaper, you might as well make [...]

You’ve all had that knock on the door, haven’t you?  You open it up, and there’s a well dressed young man.  His shirt is blue, so he’s not a missionary.  His tie isn’t red, so it’s not Amway.
He’s the Kirby Vacuum Man.

We kind of sort of maybe cloth diaper.  Yes, she’s our EIGHTH baby, but I just got my sea legs under me, so to speak, with this whole mothering thing.  Took me more than a decade, heh.
Anyway, I’m finally in a place mentally where I feel like I can take this on, we have access [...]

Each time I go to the hospital for the overnight new-baby weight loss plan (lose at least 8 pounds in 10 minutes!), the doctor sends me home with a prescription for pain medicine.  I think they feel sorry for me when they hear I also have several toddlers at home, or maybe that’s just standard [...]