Comments on: Hanging on by my ragged fingernails

By: Tammy Jones

Tammy Jones — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:00:32 +0000

I LOVE your blog!! I suppose the cat could eat leftovers but then would he live as long?

By: Esther

Esther — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:09:33 +0000

Tom DOES have a good idea – “test the patio furniture with a book”. Could that patio chair be relocated to perhaps the bakery section? The bakery section is near the vegetables, right? The bread and milk are in the same half of Freddie’s, so dinner could be about planned – doesn’t help get rid of piles of laundry, but that job never gets finished anyhow, so why bother! You do laundry now; your kids will need clean clothes a week from now. See – give it up! (if only I could, she says…)

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:11:38 +0000

Fred Meyer has Freddie’s Playland, do they not? That’s where my little buddy goes when daddy has to shop and needs to be free to string together more than two cogent thoughts. It’s an hour’s worth of peace. Even if you just end up testing the patio furniture. With a book.

By: vanessa

vanessa — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:51:58 +0000

Oh yes someday all of us will get it together….when the kids are gone maybe??? !

By: Allie

Allie — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:00:08 +0000

your kids will remember the trips to the beach and the friends and the water park and not the fact dinner was not planned and laundry was piled up. You are doing the important things. I tell you this because from this end looking at you, I see it. From my end I see my house in simlar fashion and my kids are asking me to go in the pool or play a game with them and I have to FORCE myself to do the important things (spend time with them) and not clean the house. (although I tell myself if I clean the house I will be a better mom , more patient, better mood…. etc- not.)

By: Lynne

Lynne — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:44:10 +0000

OMG – I fear we are living the same life on opposite coasts!! I can’t think of grocery shopping again until school starts b/c bringing the kids to the store is akin to eating cut glass… My house is a disaster after being away last week and we’re off on our real vacation Saturday and I can’t pay the bills before we go because I am two checks short!! Don’t even ask me where the cats are – I haven’t seen them in days…And, no — I did not make a mamogram appointment yet (I am saving it for that 6 hour block when I can get the house cleaned, errands run and catch up on the bills…)

By: MissKris

MissKris — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:18:01 +0000

I have no idea who you bank with but we can order our checks online with our bank and then have them mailed to the bank or our homes. Makes it a LOT easier. I hardly ever use them any more, either.

By: Esther

Esther — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 07:03:09 +0000

This post is simply hilarious! Almost makes a person wonder why going anywhere on vacation is supposed to make sense – you go away to have some freedom from work, but even that backfires and creates more work.

I, too, am out of bread and milk – my cat needs food and a clean litter box. but no one is here to notice, and my “kids” can drive themselves wherever they need to go – that’s the bad and the good, as I see it.