I'm a 41-year-old mom to two girls ages 8 and 5 desperately seeking sanity. I'm an editor and social media coordinator in business publishing. My husband, a former beach bartender, founded MouseCalls Computer Services here in Nashville. We have two mutts, three crabs, two frogs, and too much laundry. Estrogen and wine flow freely here, so kick off your shoes and come on in!
Our Mutts
Urine For It
Pee. It rules your days and nights when you have young children but then oh happy 2-ply pee pee dance there comes a time when the planets are aligned and everyone under your roof is using the toilet without your supervision and you are no longer shelling out a small fortune on diapers and filling [...]
The Wet Spot
This morning during those early hours before dawn when you’re body is lapping up the last bits of good sleep I was rudely awakened by Mother Nature and an impressive thunderclap. I squeezed my eyes shut, hoping that act would magically lull everyone back to sleep but I waited for it…Miss C’s pitiful voice pleading, “Mommy!”
I shuffled [...]
Gentleman Jack
Dear Jack:
Nine years ago you entered our home, our condo to be precise. This was the pre-kids era…back when we had relatively quiet Friday nights with no shrieking girls serenading us on the karaoke machine. Back when I still slept in on Saturdays and leisurely read the newspaper on Sundays.
You’ve brought so much into our [...]
Our Golden Girl
For the first time I can ever recall our dog Bailey needs help getting up on our couch.
Excuse me, I mean her couch.
Normally at night she retired to the old burgundy couch downstairs but the last two nights I have found her in the hallway outside our bedroom, curled up on the hardwood floor against [...]










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