Real life, torn from the pages of my journal, to share with you on raising my brood and dealing with life in the real world.
I’ve had a difficult time relating to my boys in the 15 years that they have been on this earth. Everything just came more natural with my daughter, simply because she was a girl I [read more]
Tre is my youngest son, and at age 12 he has already developed a fetish for all things Apple – just like his sister. He wants absolutely nothing to do with android tablets, or Microsoft [read more]
I know that I’m going to get an additional list of school supplies that the boys’ need the first week of school. That is just a given, as individual teachers require additional items for their [read more]
I read an awesome post today by Monica over at the grommom about what a teenage boy needs most from his mom. It got me to thinking about my own soon-to-be fifteen year old who is [read more]
Five years ago today, the world became a bit sadder, a bit colder, as the death of Michael Jackson traveled around the globe. Where were you when you heard the news? Strangely enough, I remember [read more]
I never had the fortune to meet Maya Angelou, but I consider her one of my dearest mentors, a shining example of how I want to live my life. I first ‘met’ Dr. Angelou many [read more]
My boys are gone this weekend. That leaves just Dad and I (and the dog) alone in the house. Left to our own devices. More like staring at the four walls and checking the boys’ [read more]
I just laughed my ass off when this came through my email a few moments ago, and I just had to share because I’m in a snarky mood. Now, right away, the Customer at the top [read more]
My eldest son, Jonathan, is a sensitive soul, although he does not show it very often. I believe he is in that awkward stage where he is attempting to define the man that he will [read more]
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National Pet Day. Isn’t it absolutely wonderful that our entire nation has devoted an entire day to loving on our pets and helping to raise awareness to the pet population in America? Much love goes [read more]
It has been a very busy weekend here at Life in a House of Testosterone – well for this estrogen carrier anyway! We heralded the beginning of spring by coloring my horribly gray hair on [read more]
For years, the eldest son has “tortured” his younger brother. You know how brothers are – constantly picking at each other, hiding toys, clothing, food, anything they can to rile up the other. Well when [read more]
I don’t know how in the hell I did this 12 years ago. I have apparently lost touch with my inner super mom after being a stay-at-home mom for the past 11 to 12 years. [read more]
I cannot help but sit here and laugh. If somebody wrote a book about my life it would be a best seller because I seriously couldn’t make this stuff up if I tried. Woke up [read more]
Quite frankly, we usually don’t do anything extraordinary for our Thanksgiving vacation. We get dinner started in the morning, watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, fix plates of food for our elderly neighbors (who have no relatives [read more]
#GivingTuesday is about giving back during the holiday season. Started in 2012, this first Tuesday after Thanksgiving has become synonymous with the holiday spirit, with the saying “good will toward men.” Please allow me to [read more]
It is hard to believe that we have been blessed to have had you in our lives for fourteen years. Seems like just yesterday at times you were this little bundle of energy that only [read more]
I woke up this morning feeling great, until I drank the leftover Coke that was in the fridge from Popeye’s Chicken that we got Tuesday evening. Um yeah, never doing THAT again! So once I [read more]
I saw this on Facebook this morning and I just had to share here on the blog! All too often, my own little testosterone carriers have come up with a quip or two worthy of [read more]
When you have weird ass dreams like this, the only logical conclusion is that your parents did acid one too many times. [read more]
This post may contain affiliate links. See LiaH Disclosure Policy. I have two sons, ages 13 (almost 14) and 10, and a daughter who will be 25 in November. While I have really tried to [read more]
Yes folks, I’m afraid that my youngest, my darling baby, has stumbled upon Internet porn. I was laying on the couch the other day, taking a nap and trying to get the muscles in my [read more]
There is nothing more utterly terrifying than having a premonition that one of your children have died before your very eyes. [read more]
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