It’s that time of year again!  Time to sign my kids up for the AngelRide.  If you’ve followed me for a couple of years, then you know the AngelRide is a charity bike ride that earns money for The Hole in the Wall Gang Camp Outreach Hospital Program (HOP). However, you may not know what […]

Do you remember that phrase that you hated to hear?  The one that people would say to you when you hadn’t showered in days, and you were walking through the grocery store like a zombie, one kid in a poopy diaper, the other hanging onto your leg screaming because you wouldn’t let him buy every […]

4/5 Tirabassi children agree, going to the dentist is no big deal.  Then there is that one child, the one who is a dental dissenter. Number 3 has not liked the dentist since the first time he visited.  He then had a bad experience when a cavity needed to be filled.  It took us two […]

Yup, I’m that momma.  The one that was at the first showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, a PG-13 rated movie with a gaggle of kids, aged 14 and under.  Including Number 5, my 5-year-old.  Decked out in his Chewbacca jammies, he strode confidently through the theater, climbed into his seat that he was […]

Two years ago I sent Spouse to the store for some chicks and he came back with baby turkeys! He thought it would be a good idea to raise our own turkeys for meat. I was a bit skeptical: