Life With Boys

Daycare asked me the other day if we were going to have Morgan [intelligence] tested.When I relayed this to Matt he responded, “Why, because he destroys things on a fifth grade level? Continue reading

The first Valentine’s Day Matt and I shared was on the phone. Matt sent me the movie, Bambi and six roses he had drawn himself on Kinko’s card stock (the most our telephone maximized budget would afford — long distance was EXPENSIVE back then — now don’t I sound old.)This year Matt and the boys… Continue reading

You know it’s a bad morning when … your loving husband greets you with “Whoa, you really are tired.” Continue reading

Why can you buy a hot dot at the corner gas station at 7 a.m., but not 7 p.m.? Continue reading

Thought I would clarify a few things — Mom was visiting me in St. Louis when she passed away.Mom already had the CA-ORSA (community acquired Oxacillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) before she went into the hospital. (Many people have asked if she “caught it” while she was at the hospital — I did too), but it… Continue reading

You would think we would have learned the first time, but no. At about 6:30 p.m. we started the conversion from crib to toddler bed. Instigated by the fact that Morgan has been pretending to be Spiderman for a few days and the crib just seemed like a hazard now. It actually took much longer… Continue reading

And they did. It appears too many people were parked along the road and the snow plows couldn’t get through (it was hardly snowing – I pretty sure some uptight person had to stop for more than 10 seconds and called it in), so all of the well-wishers were forced to move their cars into… Continue reading

On the airplane trip to Utah, Matt, Tyler, Pat and Mike were waiting for luggage or something — and out of the blue, Tyler looks up at Mike and points, “Oh, look Grandpa, you’re growing hair” [does a single hair in the middle of a bald spot qualify as growth? — according to Tyler it… Continue reading

Of course when I was coming home from California, my suitcase was too heavy (there was a great sale at Pottery Barn.) The Skycap told me that there would be a $25 fee for the overweight bag — which I paid begrudgingly. He was a cordial, funny guy — teasing me that I could have… Continue reading

Tyler and Morgan love to play “Monsters” with Grandpa Oser. “Grandpa, be a monster, be a monster” Mike transforms to a monster. Tyler runs and hides behind Grandma and Morgan tries to kill the monster. Continue reading