I stopped at Whole Paycheck Grocery on the way home from work tonight to look for Kashi Mighty Bites cereal for The Rooster. The Rooster, also known as, “SHE WHO IS IMPOSSIBLE ABOUT BREAKFAST,” likes Mighty Bites. She’ll actually eat them. With...
Topics: Change, Motherhood, Work

{"title":"Change and Other Things That Start With The Letter C","post_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/change-and-other-things-that-start-with.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/atom.xml","author":"OhTheJoys","date":"2010-02-02 17:40:00","summary":"I stopped at Whole Paycheck Grocery on the way home from work tonight to look for Kashi Mighty Bites cereal for The Rooster. The Rooster, also known as, \u201cSHE WHO IS IMPOSSIBLE ABOUT BREAKFAST,\u201d likes Mighty Bites. She\u2019ll actually eat them. With..."}

When I was getting dressed for work, The Rooster walked in, pointed at my outfit and said, "Mom, when I'm grown up, as big as you and you are dead... can I have that shirt?" [This made my mother, who often heard things like this from me at..
Topics: Family, Granny, Grief, Reflection, Rooster Girl

{"title":"Can I Have This When You're Dead?","post_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/can-i-have-this-when-youre-dead.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/atom.xml","author":"OhTheJoys","date":"2010-01-27 17:23:00","summary":"When I was getting dressed for work, The Rooster walked in, pointed at my outfit and said, \"Mom, when I'm grown up, as big as you and you are dead... can I have that shirt?\" [This made my mother, who often heard things like this from me at.."}

It started last night at midnight. First one, then the other child vomiting (and then some)! The dreaded, DOUBLE stomach virus. We recently purchased a new set of bunk beds for The Mayor and The Rooster. Being the eldest, The Mayor sleeps on the upper...
Topics: Gross, Parenting Genious, Vomit

{"title":"Double Trouble","post_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/double-trouble.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/atom.xml","author":"OhTheJoys","date":"2010-01-19 10:09:00","summary":"It started last night at midnight. First one, then the other child vomiting (and then some)! The dreaded, DOUBLE stomach virus. We recently purchased a new set of bunk beds for The Mayor and The Rooster. Being the eldest, The Mayor sleeps on the upper..."}

The distinguished gentleman behind me in the airport security line reached for my boots as they came through the scanner. I wasn't sure if he absent-mindedly thought they were his shoes or if he intended to chivalrously collect them for me, but when..

{"title":"Thunk Like Me","post_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/thunk-like-me.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/atom.xml","author":"OhTheJoys","date":"2010-01-16 19:19:00","summary":"The distinguished gentleman behind me in the airport security line reached for my boots as they came through the scanner. I wasn't sure if he absent-mindedly thought they were his shoes or if he intended to chivalrously collect them for me, but when.."}

A young woman and an older one were arguing when they got in line behind me. As far as I could tell, there are only two automated check-in kiosks for Delta Airlines at Washington National Airport and this afternoon, one of them was broken. The broken...
Topics: Life is a Story, The Things People Tell Me, Travel

{"title":"Press Here When Finished","post_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/press-here-when-finished.html","feed_url":"http:\/\/othejoys.blogspot.com\/atom.xml","author":"OhTheJoys","date":"2010-01-14 18:56:00","summary":"A young woman and an older one were arguing when they got in line behind me. As far as I could tell, there are only two automated check-in kiosks for Delta Airlines at Washington National Airport and this afternoon, one of them was broken. The broken..."}