After having a child in the Montrose School District for the past 21 years straight, I’ll tell you what I won’t miss now that my youngest just finished up her last day of school! I won’t miss getting that dreaded call from the nurse’s office. As soon as you see that number pop up on your caller id, fear and hopelessness sets in. Your child in any school system will pick up every single germ known to mankind. Every single one of them. They will bring home the violent stomach b

Do you remember back when we had party lines on our phones? Can you imagine this cell phone era generation having to deal with not only sharing one unmovable phone that was tethered to a desk for their whole family, but sharing one phone number with multiple families? They must think we grew up in the Dark Ages! You only answered if it rang your specific ring. At least it was back before telemarketers and robo calls, that might have been worth it right there. We had 7 kids, a

Let me explain why we should celebrate Moms and Dads on Mother’s Day and Father’s Day. This is a true story, based on my family. Picture my poor Mom, at the hospital ready to deliver a newborn while she already had two at home. Her oldest son Jerry was in his terrible two’s, and her oldest daughter Kathy was not even a year old yet. Since Kathy and the new baby would technically be the same age because one of them hadn’t quite turned 1 yet, they called that “Irish Twins.” Ins

What will you be doing this Mother’s Day? Do you know what a lot of Moms will be doing today? Same as always. There’ll be a lot of inedible breakfast in bed meals being served by small, well intentioned children who won’t notice that it’s being choked down gracefully by Mom in order to save hurt feelings, because that’s what mothers do. There’ll be some allotted pampering bath bomb time for moms that won’t feel much like pampering as the younger kids yell through the locked b

I think Disney movies set up a fairy tale life that can’t possibly come true because it illustrates unrealistic expectations. First of all, there should have been a phone number across the screen for child protective services when Cinderella was forced to do manual labor from morning until night. Did a teacher notice she was tired all the time and wore tattered clothes while her step-sisters wore gowns? Did she even go to school? Then when she finally has someone on her side,