My daughter made the Honor Roll at school!!

My 9 year old daughter came home yelling her head off the other day - "I made the Honor Roll, I made the Honor Roll, I made the Honor Roll!!!!!" over and over again. I knew she was getting her report...

It's not a cold, it's not the flu - I've got pneumonia!

I haven't figured out how this happened since I got a pneumonia shot last fall when I got my regular flu shot. Fat lot of good that did me. But I felt kinda crappy last week and figured I just had a...

Someone is stealing my daughter's schoolbooks out of her desk!

Something weird is going on... For the 3rd time since September one of my daughter's 3rd grade schoolbooks has vanished out of her desk! She came home yesterday and told me that her Social...

Can't avoid it any longer - had to get bifocals. They SUCK!

After managing to avoid getting them for nearly 8 years, I finally broke down and had to get bifocals just before Christmas. They are driving me crazy!! I couldn't get the "progressive lenses"...

It sucks making money decisions at Christmastime

My daughter has been taking piano lessons the last few weeks but she hates to practice every night. Today I'm going to cancel the lessons because the $50 a month I'm spending on them is needed to buy...