Monster Army

This year BAD Boy is in fifth grade. It’s going to be a bittersweet year as this is his last year at the elementary school. Thanks to proration, this year there are only two fifth grade classes and there are a lot of students in each class. And when he asked me what I was [...]

Sometimes Being Miserable Is Necessary to Be Happy

Case in point. Our air conditioner that has been struggling to keep up with the weather? Well, it maybe isn’t the AC’s fault. B had a friend in the AC business come over and add some more freon to the AC and then did some research. What he found out was that we needed [...]

Poor Charlie

Today I discovered that the Kindle for Android app was available, so of course I downloaded it. And then to test it out, I bought Shit My Dad Says and proceeded to ignore B for 2 hours.

When I finally got done reading, Charlie (Who, by the way, has suddenly developed a love of [...]

Field Trip

BAD Boy’s class took a field trip to the Capitol and we saw some really neat stuff, and I just wanted to share my favorite part of the field trip. This is an actual ad from the Alabama Advertiser dated January 10, 1897 plastered to the wall of a shotgun house at Old Alabama [...]

Rite of Passage

BAD Boy is a picky eater. Like, ridiculously picky. And he’s picky about the damnedest things. Like cake. He refuses to eat it because “it’s gross.”

I know, right? Sometimes it can get really frustrating.

Well, up until last week, donuts were also on the gross list. And then he got a wild hair and tried one. And now they’re his favorite. He loves them. And since he had only recently discovered his love of donuts, he had never eaten a hot-off-the-conveyor Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut. Continue reading Rite of Passage

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