By July, our family needs to get dirty. We need grubby bare feet, black half-moons under our fingernails, and dreadlocked hair. We need pink cheeks, sand in our bathing suits, and bug-bitten ankles. It’s because we live in the suburburniest suburb in all of the suburban world. Seriously. Cinco Ranch makes the Simpson’s Springfield look...Continue Reading
BEFORE: The rusty, dated bathroom lighting and wallpaper My strange relationship with exercise (by this I mean how I went to the gym for two years to work on my computer instead of working out) nicely illustrates how I’m afraid to suffer. I went to the gym’s café every day and watched hundreds of people...Continue Reading
10. Driving through either Texas or the Midwest is boring–but for different reasons. In the Midwest, it’s corn field after corn field. In Texas it’s billboards. In Spanish. Either place, I tell my kids, “Let’s be quiet and look out the window for a while!” Their response is either, “But I don’t KNOW Spanish.” Or...Continue Reading
Today I’m asking our sweet, sensitive Greyhound fraudulent questions. Which, yeah, I know. Asking fake questions from a pet is probably some new low. But Manny has a story to tell, so neither one of us cares this awkward blog post is hokey. (SEE? I BELIEVE THE GREYHOUND KNOWS WHEN BLOG POSTS ARE HOKEY. MOST...Continue Reading
Here’s what we learned, house redos are an expensive, time-consuming PROCESS. If we had remembered what a rigamarole renovating a house is, we would have never signed up to do it. Because of HGTV, we SHOULD HAVE KNOWN what a pounding, expensive headache we were signing up for. But we refused to hear the HGTV...Continue Reading
When we bought Best of Times Beach House, it needed a lot of love. It had “good bones” (realtor-speak for “good luck finding the bones under all its scars and cellulite.”). But the ugly scars of bad paint and the cellulite of dated wiring and rusty fixtures didn’t daunt us as much as they probably...Continue Reading
Today’s Fraudulently Asked Questions is with Me, Tina, the Mama, the one wrangling the crazy kids this summer. And that’s exactly what we’re talking about today…summer. And crazy kids. FAQ #1: School’s been out for a month. How is your family filling the time? Tina: First it was swim team, swim team, swim team. Then...Continue Reading
For a couple years now, I’ve separated the women of the world into two types: those who wear Lululemon workout wear and those who do not. (For those of you who have no idea what Lululemon workout wear is, congratulations! You definitely know which category you fit in! And you probably don’t care about this...Continue Reading
The twins obsession with Benihana started when they were in PreK 4. A couple of their friends came to school reporting Benihana as their favorite restaurant. Our kids are always eager to jump on a bandwagon, so they started asking to go. Benihana is in Sugarland; we are not in Sugarland. But there is lots...Continue Reading
Happy Birthday, M…. Turning thirty-nine is dangerous territory. The temptation is to become obsessed with your next birthday, to make this year all about what you can squeeze in before forty. To treat thirty-nine as an evaluation point, a “have I accomplished enough to be successful?” observation deck for your life. Anyone who believes in...Continue Reading
