It was Phyllis Diller who described it best when she said, “Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.” Cleaning with kids around is futility at its best. You can try your best to keep a clean house, but if you have kids, you’ll […]

I really enjoy entertaining, and whether it’s one friend or an entire party of guests, I enjoy having people in my home. Although, now that I have children, my decor and furniture has gone from chic to shabby, but nonetheless I still try to make my home warm and inviting. When I know guests are […]

I’m not picking sides in the Mommy Wars (aka stay at home versus working Moms). First of all, I’ve been on both sides of the fence. I’ve worked because I had to work, but I have also worked because I wanted to work. Then when I decided to stay home, it was an adjustment that […]

Hello, my name is Susan, and I love playing doctor with the internet. It’s not as kinky as it sounds. I know from all my previous experience that most of what I read online only leads to more questions, and my quest for answers is never quite fulfilled. Yet time and time again, I return […]

Many of you hear the word fantasy and probably immediately think I’m going to start talking about something like Fifty Shades of Grey. Naughty girls. Perhaps it’s because I haven’t read any of the books in the Fifty Shades series, but I find myself fantasizing about other things… In the midst of my daily madness, […]

In case you’re new here, if there’s one thing I’m good at, it’s finding bad gifts. It started with a family-sized gag gifts at Christmas, but I learned that doesn’t mean you can only give bad gifts once a year. No, you have several opportunities to give bad gifts throughout the year! (For some of […]