Sometimes it feels like I’ve given up hope. Like all of the daily stuff of life and motherhood is just too much. It’s watching the things you spend your time on turn to shit — shit you have to clean up! It’s the same old mess and the same old fight...

Well, this day did a complete 180 degree turn. After the kids and I napped, I loaded the dishwasher. When Madeline got home from school, we all did a mad-dash cleaning of the living room before Marc got home. I picked up everything off the floor and...

I mean… it’s so clutter-free and sanitary, with no trash or old food or rubbish on the floor! What draws them?! The sad thing is that this is actually cleaner than it was 15 minutes before I videotaped because Marc cleaned up his papers and books...

I woke Marc up in the middle of the night last night because I was pretty sure I’d heard squeaking coming from our master bedroom closet. He told me, half-awake, that it was just the furnace. I don’t think it was. I heard the squeaking after the...

Happy birthday to the man who: - I flirted with 12 years ago tonight while wearing a green v-neck sweater when we went head-to-head on N64 wrestling. (I will never forget that somehow Collette knew it was your birthday that night but I didn’t; I...