We celebrated our last official day of summer vacation today with some classic Americana: swimming, barbecuing, and getting together with friends. Norman Rockwell would've been proud. Granted, he probably would've been a little disappointed by the hoards of kids lying around en masse, playing games on iPhones. Or our family wasting its final summer evening [...]

Diane Rene of My Mind's Ramblings is back. This time with a story of foot-in-mouth disease.I think every state has standardized testing in their public school systems. I know in many homes these results are not regarded with any importance, especially in the older years where the kids use the time to draw pictures with [...]

Photo by Sue BauzysFor Kelly DeBie, who blogs at DeBie Hive, the title of World's Worst Mom isn't good enough. She's gone intergalactic. It's like the Miss Universe beauty pageant -- reigning supreme on just earth is not enough. But has anyone ever thought about what might pass for pretty 4,000 light years away? And [...]

So there was a story in our local newspaper the other day (yes, I still get the newspaper) about a high school kid who just graduated with a perfect K-12 attendance record -- never missed one day of school. I won't link to the article because I already feel bad enough that I'm going to [...]

Meet the very funny, very pregnant Mom in Rome. She's due in a couple of weeks and is nowhere near having her nursery finished. Which is just one of many reasons why she always seems to find some amount of safety and comfort here at World's Worst Moms. . .Courtesy of Mom in RomeI swear.I [...]

So here's where I am right now. . .• We just got home from an eight-day, second annual Nevada road trip (this time to Vegas), and my house looks as though mythical creatures who secretly live underneath my carpet have finally shown themselves and puked up the following: dirty laundry that smells like casino smoke [...]

So, I'm sick. Not dying with the flu or even puking sick, but up at 3 a.m. because I can't really swallow or sleep sick. Which is great for writing. Not so good for anything else.I'm not a very good sick person. I sort of feel like I deal with enough physical irritation on a [...]

I got really angry today. Really, really angry. I was like a big ball of rage that was ready to blow up all over everybody, and I basically had to send myself to my room and hyperventilate to keep from strangling someone. Why?Valentine's cards.The kids' school requires them to make all of their own Valentine's [...]

I'm not a big gun fan. I've never understood hunting -- I think if your favorite past time is shooting something just to watch it die and your favorite scene in Bambi is when his mother bites it, there's something seriously wrong with you. And please don't write to me about how you do it [...]