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I’ll Be Home for Christmas (When I Wander In…)
My eldest drives home from college for the winter (Christmas? Hanukkah? Solstice? Mithra’s Birthday?) break. It’s a fifteen hour drive, as long as he avoids rush hours in any of the big cities he must drive through, and as long as they haven’t prepared in advance for all that holiday traffic by taking the ship [...]
Your Child’s First…Speeding Ticket
Yep. It’s a milestone in every parent’s life. Some parents have great angst about their kids driving. I know some folks who delayed getting their kids into driver’s ed until they were nearly twenty. Not me. I am so tired of being my kids’ chauffeur that any kid even near 16 gets shoved out the [...]
Driving Mr. Goth
I am my child’s chauffeur. Every mom knows this line. From the time your kids are old enough to get involved in outside activities, your car becomes the center of your life. Morning carpool. Followed by a field trip. Then a doctor’s appointment. Followed by afternoon carpool. Then the mandatory athletic practice. Followed by evening [...]
Mommenfreude (Sunday Rehash)
Mommenfreude is the feeling of satisfaction that nosy mothers get when other mothers screw up.
Personally, I think this word should be nominated for “word of the year” (Remember Stephen Colbert and “truthiness”?).
The Rules Don’t Apply to Her!
These are the women who think that signs, warnings, and rules of the road are guidelines. Suggestions, really. We’ve all met them. We’ve all fumed about them. The women who zoom past the entire carpool line and let their kids out in the “No loading/unloading” zone. ‘Cause that just applies to cargo, right? Not kids? [...]
Mommenfreude
The hysterically sarcastic woman who blogs at A Lawyer Mom’s Musings coined a new word in her latest post. Mommenfreude is the feeling of satisfaction that nosy mothers get when other mothers screw up. Personally, I think this word should be nominated for “word of the year” (Remember Stephen Colbert and “truthiness”?). We all know [...]
