On that note, my mom once borrowed a VHS tape of How the Grinch Stole Christmas from a friend. She gave it to us to watch and then went and did her thing.

It definately can happen. A cousin of mine has a strict screen policy of only on weekends for tv, tablet, and video games. I am much more lenient since my kid never really watches TV but, for some reason, she needs it as background noise. (Or she’ll do something like set up a pretend movie theater for her toys and…

Whoever made that terrible graphic obviously has never played cornhole beanbag toss. Those things are usually pretty hefty and they bruise nicely when you whap them at others at full speed. I learned this by playing it with a gaggle of 5 year olds once. They could’ve taken out an eye if they were able to actually aim…

I hovered when Mini schwa was really little, but around the age of 4, I just let her do her thing while I relax on a bench. I’ve stopped caring about being judged by other moms. They probably all judge anyway, since we live in an upper-middle class city and I don’t care if my kid gets on the school bus with a milk…

Third party candidates have given me one special warm fuzzy during this election season: watching an acquaintance’s facebook comments devolve into a sputtering mess of never Trump vs. we must vote Trump. You see, this friend is an evangelical pastor and “spiritual advisor.” He has been (rightly) horrified by Trump and…

Same here. Right around the time Trump was at the end of primary and it was clear he was going to grab the nomination, I believed that theory for a bit. Because nothing else made sense. I felt that the election year had reached a massive low point and I had to find something to explain it.

Seriously. He can’t even deny an accusation without managing to dig himself deeper and deeper.

It’s amazing how kids can ask a simple, innocent question and expose things for what they really are.

Oh, no doubt about it. I just have no idea why she picked this particular issue to grasp onto and jumpstart her political career. It came out of seemingly nowhere. Last week, she wanted to go topless like the guy mowing his lawn. I explained the best I could on why that was a problem, and did my best to explain how…

My hope is that Trump will become the new cautionary poster child for why people shouldn’t share every single thought/detail/activity on social media or on camera. I mean, Trump isn’t the first to get busted with old clips or soundbites, but he’s clearly taken this to a whole new level. 

I doubt her school would like swear words, but she could probably get away with it girl scouts.

I managed some sleep last night and was rewarded. When we woke up, mini schwa told me that she wants to be President someday, because the world has too many meanies.

It’s men whining about how, if women couldn’t vote, Trump would easily win. Therefore, women shouldn’t vote. If you search the hashtag on twitter right now, it’s mostly outrage and mocking the idea. But eventually, you’d get to the dark side...

Well, I’m doing my job at educating the next generation. During the first debate, mini schwa informed me that “That man is too rude, I don’t like him” and “I hope the girl wins, I wanna go topless like boys*!”

I’m home alone with the mini schwa right now, so I can’t go out on a beer run, and it’s probably not great parenting to be drinking in the quantities that are needed when I’m the only adult in the house. But I did end up raiding the cheese crackers.

Thank you for this.

He’s reached the point where patriotism and being a “true American” means that you had to personally be in NYC and witness the New York attacks as they happened.

About a decade ago, we almost moved out to Wyoming to attend school at UW. Sometimes, I wish we had, because things aren’t much better in Michigan and at least there are mountains in Laramie. On the other hand, if things are going to go to hell in a handbasket, at least we have family here and not located in a city in…

Every time I hear “North Korea threatening” I imagine Kim Jong-Un making some prank phone calls to the White House at 11pm.

A guy I went to school with back in the day posted to Facebook the other day that he was voting for Clinton. He’s a fairly typical rightwing evangelical, kinda hardcore but not creepy crazy. Two days after the debate last week, he just posted that he was voting Clinton. He had been thinking about third parties. He had…