The kids and I had a lot of fun this past weekend.  Little Man had the day off of school this past Friday because it was records day for the teachers. My friend Michele’s older son, J, also had the day off of school, so she and her two boys came over and spent the [...]

On July 4th, Steve and I will be married for 12 years. It’s been a fun and wacky ride all this time but we’ve had one constant through it all, and that is our Golden Retriever, Sammy. Sammy, short for Samantha, was about 16 months old when Steve and I had our first date. The [...]

My family and I will be busy all day with fun Christmas activities but I wanted to wish all my Up North Mommy readers a very Merry Christmas. Have a joyous time with your families and don’t drink too much eggnog!

If you have little kids like I do, be sure to head over NORAD and [...]

On Sunday, we had our annual Christmas party with my mom’s side of the family. My contribution was to bring the cake, as usual, so I got the brilliant idea to contact my neighbor Kathleen and had her make us one of her wonderful, scrumpdilicious cakes. This time I had her make a carrot cake. [...]

On Saturday Little Miss Throwsafit and I went downtown and had a tea party at a little tea house call the British Tea Pantry. We had a wonderful time. She looked so cute taking little delicate sips of our Rooibos Sweet Sin tea from her china tea cup.
For lunch she had macaroni and cheese while [...]

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I hope you have a wonderful day with your friends and family. Today we are going to my parents’ house where we’ll have Thanksgiving dinner with them.
Although we are experiencing an economic upheaval there is still much to be thankful for. I am thankful for the unconditional love [...]

Today is Little Man’s seventh birthday. I still can’t believe how old he is now. He’s in the first grade and is really enjoying himself. We celebrated tonight with our family, my parents and my father in law (my mother in law is in Florida taking care of her step mother who is dying).  Here [...]

My parents came up today for Sunday dinner. We played outside where my parents helped my son on his bike. He’s seven years old on the 16th and I’ve got a bug up my butt about the fact that he still hasn’t gone through the rite of passage of learning how to ride a two-wheeler.
Little [...]

The only problem with having a Great Dane for a pet is that when she wants to be petted, she’ll be petted. For example, while I was sitting here at my desk writing, she came up and put her face in my face. As try as I might, I could not get her move. I [...]

Yesterday afternoon I had to go to the grocery store. After cajoling my older son into changing his shirt because the one he was wearing had splatters of the various foods he had eaten all day, we headed for the door. That was when I remembered Littlest One had been walking around wearing only one [...]