There’s Something About Katie

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The Monday before Christmas, I found myself on an early morning visit to the emergency room. Pain had jolted me from sleep and on my way to the hospital it was getting worse. When I arrived at the emerg, I was a shade of green that bordered on grey and totally facilitated immediate service for [...]

Now My Kid Is A Weapon Of Mass Destruction

Know what’s pissing me off right now? Peanut butter and the peanut butter knows exactly why. Hell, everybody knows that peanut butter is the deadly enemy. Trust me, I have no idea what it’s like to have a deadly food allergy but I really feel for people that do and try to accommodate best I [...]

Our Holiday Gift Guide & Giveaway: Get The Hint

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This little chapter of the Aiming Low Holiday Gift Guide & Giveaway, features a product that will satisfy both the smart-asses and office supplies / organization junkies on your holiday shopping list Get The Hint Sticky Notes from Think Geek definitely qualifies as a smartass and useful organization tool — two things that lay near [...]

Look Ma: I’m Watch List Worthy!

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One of the services my business offers is setting up sites for clients which includes purchasing domains on their behalf. Clients usually have a domain in mind and it’s often as easy as me typing it in et voila, making the purchase. But sometimes the domain is already taken and when that happens, many of [...]

She’s SO Getting a Book Deal

Location: The Dinner Table Participants: My family (me, husband, and the four year old) Subject: Frankly, I’m not quite sure For the record, no one wanted to cook or do dishes so pizza it is! It was delivery and definitely delissimo. 4yo: Mommy, can you take me to a mommy blog someday? husband: *snort*

To The Max(i)

Way back in the early Nineties, I lived with a group of friends in a duplex house that we called “The House of Skate” because most of the occupants were hard core skateboarders. It was a mix of ladies and gentlemen living in this duplex that sported a total of five bedrooms, but had only [...]

My Daughter Is Trying To Kill Me

Yes, that is a totally sensational post title, reminiscent of one of my favourite guilty pleasures: British Tabloid Headlines but OH MAH GAWD, I think it might be true. She is trying to kill me and make it look like natural causes. Here is my proof: Hallowe’en has to be one of my most favourite [...]

I’m sure he means everything

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Everyone probably knows that kids seem to inherit the habits that parents least want passed down to the next generation. In my family’s case, it’s the pack-rat mania, which translates to: my daughter collects trash. Oh I’m sorry, I mean “found treasures“. This is not a new post topic for me, I’ve probably composed a [...]

You’ll see that life is a frolic and laughter is calling for you……

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Confession: some days I dress like Mrs. Roper. True Confession: I dress like Mrs. Roper daily. Yah, I know, shame on me for not being truthful in my first confession but whatever.  I’m obviously working on it so give me a break. So yes, I dress like Mrs. Roper and I’m both outwardly ashamed and [...]

My Red Green Couch

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Hey, remember how I impressed you with my housekeeping skills with the dust bunny that ate Tokyo? Yeah, well guess what? My cats want to show you their housekeeping skills and how mistress Katie AKA “THE WOMAN WE WANT TO DRIVE INSANE” reacts to their mad skillz. And by housekeeping skills, I mean WHAT THEY [...]

Two more good reasons I shouldn’t attempt to clean this house

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Something strange came over me the other day and I just couldn’t fight it. I, motherbumper, slacker extraordinaire, decided to clean our home. I decided to be all hygienic even though there was absolutely no pressing reason to do it. Well, I mean mess aside, there was absolutely no pressing reason I couldn’t ignore the [...]