Common Wife in a Common Life
I haven’t even started any Christmas baking yet – and it’s less than a week till Christmas! I usually do several kinds of cookies and put together cookie platters for the neighbors, but it doesn’t look like it will be happening this year. I’ve been so busy, and then we had a nasty flu make [...]
Julia Roberts just said in an article that she gave up swearing after becoming a mother. What about all you other mothers out there? Do you swear in front of your kids? I have to admit that every once in a while, when I drop a glass or bang my head on the open freezer [...]
Does being a woman make you more likely to vote for Hillary Clinton? I’ve seen that implied in several news stories – that the fact that we have breasts makes us less likely to vote our conscience – instead, we’ll just vote our gender. I find this ludicrous. If that’s all it takes to make [...]
Apparently, Peter Jackson and New Line Cinema have fixed their financial disagreement. It has been announced that they have reached an agreement for Jackson to produce an adaptation of the Lord of the Rings prequel The Hobbit. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that it will actually be two films – one from the book, and one [...]
A Santa at a mall in Danbury, Connecticut got a little more than he bargained for when a woman on crutches asked if she could pose on his lap for a photo. Seems the 33-year-old woman copped a feel – from Santa! The truly disgusting part is that there were kids there, waiting in line [...]
So, let’s do an informal poll. Do you open your gifts on Christmas Eve or on Christmas Day? If you are a Christmas Eve person and you married a Christmas Day person – or vice versa – what do you do now? Do you switch every year? Or did one person’s preferences win out. We [...]
In the area of useless trivia: all of Santa’s reindeer are female. How do I know this? Well, I read that male reindeer lose their antlers before December 25th. And since all the pictures we have of Santa and his crew show the deer with antlers intact, we’re left to assume they are all of [...]
Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Some years I do, some years I don’t. When I do, sometimes I keep them and sometimes I don’t. I’ve never managed to find a science between why some resolutions get kept and others I fail miserably at. Do you have any goals for the New Year? How do [...]
What’s your opinion on cell phones for kids? It seems like everywhere I go anymore, there are kids as young as 7 or 8 with their very own cell phone. What for? Where are they going at that age that they aren’t with an adult who has a phone? I guess if your kids were [...]
Can you believe the news about Jamie Lynn Spears? Obviously, she’s following right along in her big sister’s footsteps. The thing I find the most horrifying about this is that their mother was planning to write a book of parenting advice! She would only need one sentence: “Do the opposite of what I did.”