Kids are the best, aren’t they? So many advantages…

• 1. You can eat off their plate without asking. (Funny how the calories from their French fries don’t count.)
• 2. They can sleep through anything. Seriously, invite AC/DC over to your living room to play and the little rugrat won’t hear a peep.
• 3. You can pass gas and blame it on them. (Come on, like you haven’t?!?)

We are a dog-loving family.  So much so, that we have five rescues!  (But they’re small – four Chihuahuas and a terrier mix, so together that makes one big dog.)  And how did one rescue become five?  Well, let’s chalk that up to my partner, Lori, and I just being big softies at heart.  Because most of our pack came from desperate e-mails from friends or rescue groups that read, “HELP!  This little guy’s only got one more day at the shelter and then it’s curtains!”  Enter us and our usual pattern.  Most times we’ve said, “Okay, we’ll foster them until they find a permanent home.”  But then of course, we fall in love and they become a permanent addition to our brood! 

If you’re a parent of a young child, you’re probably no stranger to waking up in the middle of the night to your child calling for “Mommy!” from his bedroom. If you’re lucky, it’s simply a bad dream, a stuffy nose or some other legitimate reason that has disturbed your sleep. If you have a preschooler like mine, however, you have a child born without the ability to discern between critical and non-critical reasons to wake you up at 5 a.m. For me, justifiable reasons to rouse a sleep-deprived mother from slumber include a preschooler’s bodily functions or, perhaps, flames.

Greetings, fresh back from spring break! You know that time of year - when your kid is bouncing off the walls from being at school so much that it’s only fair that he bounce around some walls around you again. And the thing that’s annoying about it is the timing every year - it’s always the same week that everybody else and their kids go on vacation. If you are on a “staycation,” you might notice your hometown just got a little more crowded and if you are able to travel to a hotel, you might notice the cleanliness is not quite up to snuff.