What are You Eating for Christmas Dinner?

It’s Christmas Eve and I just finished making two Texas Sheet Cakes* to take to dinner at our friends’ house tonight. We will, of course, be eating BBQ. Because we eat BBQ for every special occasion in Texas. I can’t even recall a church dinner that didn’t feature brisket. Not… Read More

December 22, 2011

Cool Yule (or why I’m not freaking out this Christmas)

Have you noticed I haven’t gone on one of my holiday-induced rants this season? Normally by this point I’m up in arms about the endless concerts and recitals, stupid holiday parties, and gifts for various people that I’d rather not give. I’m angry a lot at Christmas. So stupid of… Read More

December 1, 2011

It’s going To Be a Homemade Christmas

Yeah, I’m making all my Christmas gifts this year. No, not for my kids! Like I can make an ipod! We’re talking extended family gifts. I’m over at Segullah today discussing why I would do this. The stuffed dog head is just the beginning . . . . By Hildie… Read More

November 15, 2011

How To Tell Your Kids You Can’t Afford Something

With the holidays coming up I figured we could all use a little tutorial on How-To Tuesday about how to tell your kids that they won’t be getting everything their little hearts desire. Of course you need to know how to do this all year round. If you think you… Read More

January 1, 2011

New Years Eve and the Great Christmas Trip of ’10

You guys! I’m back! I didn’t want to tell you that I was going on a vacation for Christmas because I know there’s that crazy band of robbers who reads mommy blogs until they find one who says they’ll be gone then locates their house and steals everything (just kidding,… Read More

December 21, 2010

Don we now our gay apparel

Now is the time when I go into a full-on Christmas panic. Lately I have been living my life like somebody pressed the Fast Forward button, so let me just wish you a Merry Christmas today. Not sure I’ll be with it enough on Saturday to remember. P.S. If I… Read More

December 17, 2010

My Christmas letter to the school

Dear School That My Children Attend, First of all, today is the last day of school before Christmas vacation. Thus it is my last day to run errands child-free. You have scheduled my child’s class party for 9 am. Just because all the other parents take their children home as… Read More

December 14, 2010

I fought the gun and the gun won

Like most earnest and well-educated parents I decided that when I had children we would be “gun-free”. No shooting toys period.* (Except water guns because those aren’t about killing, they’re about laughing. And Nerf guns because, well, I don’t know. They’re just different.) I’ve always preferred my boys to pretend… Read More

December 5, 2010

Trial by Christmas Card

I just got our first Christmas card yesterday which put me in a tailspin of Christmas card anxiety. We haven’t gotten our Christmas cards done. Or had the picture taken. Or gotten all the clothes. Or made the clothes that I haven’t been able to find in the store. I… Read More

December 2, 2010

Do you . . .

have more than one Christmas tree? put mostly presents in the kids’ stockings or mostly candy? give Santa credit for the most awesome present your child receives or do you bask in the glory? have your big dinner on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day? give your children Christmas pajamas? open… Read More

November 30, 2010

The first week

If you have uttered these words I have a bone to pick with you: “let’s plan it for the first week of December so we won’t interfere with people’s holiday plans.” I have to say that I am tired–SICK AND TIRED–of every holiday event being planned for the first week… Read More