Having a big open family is all good until they totally ruin your sex night
My grandparents just celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary. My mom is the eldest of their 5 kids, all of whom live within a few hours of one another. There are 12 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren also all within a few hours radius. Almost all of us get together at least twice a year for Thanksgiving and Easter and maybe once more a year for a wedding. It makes keeping tabs (see: checking up on tattoos, boyfriends, unemployment, etc) much more personable than MySpace or Facebook. We’re pretty traditional: divorces, step-kids, the gays, the rich uncle, the losers, the smart ones, the holy rollers, the cousin with 4 kids and 3 baby daddys. We make dirty

Big Ole Big Time Big Sale
Don’t hate me because this is awesome. Yes, this is a post where I hawk my wares. Get over it; it’s a short post. Good for the Kids – Melissa and Doug Toys, Gifts for Kids, and Nuby Cups for Children 30% off PLUS free shipping on US-shipped orders of $75+ Use code holiday2009

The Twitter can solve the world’s problems when the world’s problems can be fixed with porn and
Riding home from Disney tonight, I was thinking in my head extra introspectively. You know, with like Twitter and stuff. I posed a very heady, high-brow, thinking question to The Twitter: “I need an obsession. Ideas?“ Not surprisingly, The Twitters responded en masse. themomsmith @alotofnothing doesnR

She’d do it all.
I’ve been mulling over what to write for two days. I don’t usually do that. Normally, I don’t have much to write about, so I pull something out of my arse at the last minute and put up my moment of genius. Obviously. I have a tendency to have diarrhea of the mouth try to bring the LOLs to bad situations. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail. Anissa would totally tell me I’d fail. Then she’d tell me to go whine into Ralph Macchio’s twitter stream, but to make sure I included her twitter name in the tweet so he’d see her. Then she’d c

Aiming to a Higher Power for Anissa
This may not be the best quality photo, but when you’re with Anissa, you know this is her – how she is, how we love her, her true smile. Please go to the Aiming Low “Hope for Anissa” post to leave comments or links for Anissa. Anissa, I believe in you and know you will get through this. Thank you for believing me, for trusting me, for allowing me to be