Clap or Die!
This past weekend we took Cardin to Disney on Ice. We had been preparing her all week that the guys from Lion King and Little Mermaid would be skating on the ice. Though, I prefer her chopped word of “kating” over the proper pronunciation of the word. Before the show started we bought the obligatory […]
While the other is away…
A number of years ago, on a cold blistery day in January, my grandma fell off the roof and broke her lower vertebrate. One might wonder what an elderly woman was doing on the roof; shoveling snow… most obviously. Any reasonable person would understand the potential for water damage from mounting snowfall. Any reasonable person […]
The family that yells together stays together….or something like that.
We’re Italian, right? We’re loud, always in each other’s business, and force feed people until they explode. It’s what we do best. There are many advantages to having a large Italian family in one town. Someone is always around if you need help or a babysitter, family BBQ’s are far more exciting, the mob usually […]
Giving Thanks
Oh Thanksgiving…the time of year that we gather with family to celebrate the things we are most thankful for in our life. And we do this by strappin’ on the ol’ feedbag and chowin’ down. Don’t worry, somebody usually chucks in a “thanks for the food and for the troops, Amen” before our faces plow […]
Throne of LIES
I was standing in line at the grocery store the other day and this annoying little hairball of a child was doing jumping jacks next to me and going “MOMMY. MOMMY. MOMMY. IS SANTA CLAUS REAL?” See…this is the reason I could never be a teacher. It took every ounce of strength in my body […]