Alas Babylon by Pat Frank is an old school nuclear war novel first published in 1959. It follows a family in Florida through the aftermath of the major cities around them being bombed.

I think the first step is parents, but if there's 2 incoming freshmen, a student group might be good, too. I said something about it to my daughter after we picked her up and she didn't see the point. She's always had a good attitude about her twin so she doesn't see anything to commiserate with someone about.

My daughter starts high school next year and today all of the incoming freshmen from 3 middle schools were invited to an introduction at the freshman center. We dyed the ends of her hair dark purple last night, so they match her glasses. and she had a blast. She signed up for the Engineering Club (where some boy…

When I was in Jr High, our 8 month old Brittney Spaniel did that to an entire, giant block of toilet paper that my mom bought at the warehouse store. It was either 36 or 48 rolls spread from the back door, through the kitchen and living room. It was shin deep almost everywhere. It is funny in retrospect and a pain…

I don't know about acupuncture, but I usually up my D3 and B vitamins when I start feeling blah without any outside reason or illness.

Don't sweat it. My parents have been married 30 years. She is the oldest of six. He is the oldest of two and all of his cousins have always lived in other states. When her family is over, my Dad frequently takes breaks in their room because the 4-6 extra family groups get to him.

You figure out who those people are and tell them you are starting half an hour before.

One of mine was diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at 3.5. He started early intervention preschool, but it wasn't until he was 7 that we started seeing a specialist that, among other things, told us to give him melatonin. When we expressed concern about how that would affect his ability to make his own, the…

That's ok. I married in my 20's to the first man I dated that didn't turn into a complete dog-boy. I found it very sexy that he didn't just follow me around and beg for attention. Men can do that at any age. (we are coming up on our 14th anniversary)

My husband loves giving me oral, so we always do that first so I orgasm at least twice before we start getting him off.

Sometimes when I'm yelling for one child, I yell the other one's name, or the cat's name, or the dog's name, or my husband's name. Then I'm like, "D'oh! Stupid brain!"

I had my twins 4 weeks early. I was incredibly uncomfortable for a day and a half leading up to them putting monitors on me to check on the twins, and when I was hooked up to the machines, the nurse said, "uhh... did you realize you are having contractions?" I had been having a hard time finding a comfy position on…

Mix 1 bag frozen hash browns, 2-3 cups shredded cheese (we use medium cheddar), pepper & garlic powder to taste, an optional splash of beef broth. I bake it in my ancient 9.5x16.5x2 pyrex baking dish until the cheese is melted and the edges are crispy.

It's not the combo. I'm up for cheese and potato anytime, but I usually have another vegetable and a protein lined up to go with it. I was very focused on the hash brown casserole to the point that it was all I made and the pancakes were thrown in as an afterthought and attempt to actually make it look like a meal.

I think PMS is setting in. I made hash brown casserole and frozen pancakes for dinner.

I love my twins, and they are a lot of fun at 14, but I didn't sleep more than 3 hours at a time until they were 5.

I have twins. All I could think of when I saw that on the news was, "What did they do to anger God so much?"

You are not wrong.

I posted about this a few days ago in GT. So my husband has a techie job and works 3 nights a week from 6pm to 6am. He's been growing his hair out since landing the job and now has a decent ponytail. Last week, he dyed it green. Being the Cool Dad he is, he suggested my daughter, age 13, dye the ends of her hair. …

Alas, there are no basements in Dallas. And really the big pluses to paying cash to go break stuff is a night out with no kids, no cleaning up, and dinner with the husband afterward.