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Transcript of an imagined phone call to poison control

Poison Control Operator: Poison Control, how may I help you?

Me: Uh, yes…my son just ate part of an old and rather stale gingerbread house…

PCO: How old, ma’am?

Me: Three years…

PCO: The gingerbread house is three years old?

Me: Oh, no. My son is three years old.

PCO: What is […]

My 9-year-old performed an emergency appendectomy on my husband during our holiday in Lisbon and I couldn’t be more proud

Or: Why Christmas newsletters are awesome.

Read about my sincere love of over-the-top yearly chronicles over at Mile High Mamas.

Send your newsletters to me and rest assured I am not shooting poison darts across the miles in your general direction.

Hearty is hard

What does it take to get school cancelled in Colorado when it snows?

This is the seventh year I’ve had a child in a public school. We’ve had FOUR days when school has been cancelled due to too much snow over all those years. That seems astonishing when you consider where we live. Snowfall that […]