A Happy Meal almost got me killed the other day.I was pulling out of a McDonalds drive-thru having procured Happy Meals as the bribe, I mean reward, for my kids completion of their daily e-learning assignments, when I almost got broadsided by a truck speeding...
Parenthood
A Happy Meal almost got me killed the other day.I was pulling out of a McDonalds drive-thru having procured Happy Meals as the bribe, I mean reward, for my kids completion of their daily e-learning assignments, when I almost got broadsided by a truck speeding...
Quarantine fatigue has set in big time at our house.Tempers are short and quick. Hair is long and unruly. The breakfast room a one-room schoolhouse run by an unqualified teacher whose stock response to any question is “Google it.”And the kids never leave...
It took a global pandemic to get me to budge on our house electronics rules.My 9th grader? She’s been pleading her case for social media access for months. Friends who aren’t allowed to roam the mall sans parents, but can post selfies on...
Remember the classic 80s arcade game Frogger, where you had to direct frogs to their homes one by one by crossing a busy street?That’s what my morning run has turned into, a freaking game of Frogger.Thanks to the rules of social distancing, which...
