The science fair was this week, and I've never been so happy to finish "projects that I'm not involved in." While it's lovely in theory to allow your child to conduct and then create a presentation of an entire project on his/her own, the practical execution of said theory never shakes out the way you [...]
How to Get Your Kid to Clean the Whole House
February 5, 2013 – Posted in: Chronic Pain, Cleaning, Green Living, Things To Do with Kids, Worst Mom ReviewsOnce upon a time, I was a really good housekeeper. You could pretty much eat off of my floors. I did things like clean the refrigerator even if something hadn't spilled in it. I'd wonder to myself how people lived with dirty baseboards. Then I had kids. That was about ten years ago. Coincidentally, also [...]
Why Can’t Natural Food Taste. . . Good?
September 12, 2012 – Posted in: Food, Green Living, This is Supposed to be Helpful, Worst Mom ReviewsSo I'm a cereal fiend. Connoisseur. Addict. I practically live on the stuff. A lot of the medication I take kinda sorta makes me not want to eat, so without cereal, I would probably waste away into one of those scary people you see on the anorexia sites. Or these folks: Anyway, I've been trying [...]
The Just About, Pretty Much, Almost Perfect Sunscreen
July 17, 2012 – Posted in: Cancer Sucks, Green Living, Worst Mom ReviewsSo I am -- big shocker -- sort of obsessive about certain things, and one of the more annoying ones happens to be sunscreen. I say annoying because I hate sunscreen. I hate the way it feels, hate washing it off, hate feeling like it never actually does wash off, hate having to sleep in it [...]
Greenhouses from the Ground Up
May 5, 2012 – Posted in: Bright Side of Life, Gardening, Green Living, Greenhouses, Tenzin, Worst Mom RandomnessThe "Cute Greenhouse"My husband, Tenzin, is an E.R. doctor who'd rather be a gardner. Last year he wanted to put up a greenhouse, so we went to Costco and checked one out. Now I'm in no way dissing Costco -- it's provided us with half the stuff in our house -- but I wasn't exactly [...]
An Ole Fashioned Greenhouse Raisin’
October 3, 2011 – Posted in: Gardening, Green Living, Greenhouses, Tenzin, Worst Mom RandomnessPhoto by Tammy Soong Winter is apparently coming tomorrow, and even though I'll be more than happy to say goodbye to allergy season, I'll be sad to see my morning glories bite the dust. Every day I walk downstairs, look outside, and smile when I see the bright, blue flowers. And then later, sometime in [...]
Don’t Make Me Kick You in the Non-Existent Tailpipe
June 10, 2011 – Posted in: Cranky Tammy, Green Living, Worst Mom RantsDear Nissan,Hi. It's Tammy. Here in Nevada. Where you haven't released the Leaf yet. I'm on your waiting list. Probably near the top. You may recall that you said I'd have my car by the end of last year.I understand that you want your roll-out of the first mass-produced electric vehicle to be a success. [...]
Anatomy of a House Party
May 15, 2011 – Posted in: Green Living, Grown-up Friends, Money, Okay That's Funny, Worst Mom RandomnessSo I went to a Tupperware party tonight. Just saying that makes me feel even dumpier, lamer, and older than I already am. I realize that Tupperware has "changed" and is "cool" now, but I frankly can't get past the idea that it's a bunch of orange, BPA-leaching plastic that my mom used for making [...]
It’s Not Easy Bein’ Light Green
April 13, 2011 – Posted in: Gardening, Green Living, World Gone Crazy, Worst Mom RantsI'm not sure why, but I have a really hard time saying we live a green lifestyle. All things being equal, compared to our old neighbors who drove a giant SUV, seemed to be trying to crank out as many kids as physically possible, and probably used their recycling bins as kindling to burn their [...]
The 2010 Holiday Letter
January 2, 2011 – Posted in: Conservatives are Funny, Dogs, Family, Green Living, Grown-up Friends, Holiday Letter, Mean Girls, Money, Parenting, Politics, Worst Mom Rants, WritingSo every year, for about the past fifteen years, I've written a holiday letter. It's kind of how this whole blogging thing got started. As you might imagine, my letters weren't exactly laundry lists of the fantastic trips we'd taken or stories about how the kids came home with "Student of the Week" bumper stickers. [...]
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