I bought my kid a car. It’s a 1999 Infiniti i30. It’s nothing fancy, but it’s not quite the beater car that I thought I was going to end up getting him. It’s a cute little car, with a sunroof and a couple dings in it. He didn’t know I was car shopping for him. […]
Parenting is a funny job. When your kids are young (especially if you are young too), you spend a lot of time worrying about all the things that could possibly go wrong. You wake up in the middle of the night to make sure you can see your baby’s little back or chest rising and […]
I let my kid take the day off school today to handle the annual business of dental cleaning and sports physicals. On top of that, I scheduled his driving test. He’s had his learner’s permit for the last six months or so and it was time for the big test. I’ve been teaching him how […]
So all that worrying and panicking and putting in twenty applications over the weekend led to 4 calls for interviews today. But my first pick job was a cafe job that was Monday through Friday. I put it out into the universe that if I had to work a regular job I thought I wouldn’t […]
My daughter turns 25 today. My only daughter. My first born. I was seventeen when I had her and I was a total fucking mess. It took me until I was about 7 months pregnant to decide for sure that I was going to keep her. I was scared shitless and didn’t think I had […]
I only worked a half day yesterday. My kiddo texts me right before 11am and said that he was finished with school and he asked me if I would come pick him up. Today is actually the last day of school, I think. I’m not exactly sure because from what I gather, the teachers have […]
I made it home. Dayton isn’t really that far from Knoxville. It’s about a 4.5-hour drive. Somehow I usually manage to make it a 6-hour drive. But this trip, I didn’t get abducted by aliens at all (which is usually my excuse for arriving over an hour late). It was a great day for a […]
