A Tea-Tray in the Sky

During my time of avoidance we celebrated my mother's birthday. I was dreading it. I love my mother more than I ever knew and I hat...

Can I share with you my most hated aspect of parenting? The clothes. The endless buying and washing and outgrowing and changing seasons, ove...

Every year it's the same. Every year, it's only March Madness. I'm so very sick of it. Let me back up a bit. When we were much...

All of my life I've been skinny. Now, I know with that one statement some of you are hating me. I know some of you have struggled all yo...

I don't talk much about my pets. Which, in and of itself, is horrible. Before Alice, they were my children. Now they are the reason I va...

You know the saying, "time heals all wounds." Maybe you've even said it yourself in an attempt to comfort someone. I am here t...

Today's the day. January 2nd. The day I have been waiting for with equal parts of fear and loathing mixed in. 2012 was not a horrible ye...

I wrote my first post on December 18th, 2011. Of course, not at A Tea-Tray in the Sky . That first step into the darkside of blogging was so...

Hand in hand, I lifted the latch and we entered the tot lot. All around were tricycles, plastic ride on cars, balls, plastic playhouses, and...

I'm a glutton for punishment. It's the only logical explanation. You recall hell weekend , right? I've agreed to a do-over. Shak...

If you have an early riser in your house, then you know how I feel. Alice has always woke with the sun. Regardless. Period. I have googled. ...

Growing up, in my family, I was always known as the computer savy one of the bunch. I was the youngest, so computers had been a part of my l...

I found this in my mail box yesterday. Do you know what this is? This is rediculous, is what it is! How dare a company send me a Halloween c...

You may remember a few months back, I gave up television for Lent. No tv. At all. I felt compelled to end the addiction when I found myself ...

Happy to report, I might just have a stalker. Relax, no need to be jealous quite yet. No one is hiding in the bushes with high tech photogra...

Today, by the suggestion of a fellow mom, I found my myself at a local nursery (not the baby kind) that also has wooden death traps structur...

Did you every see the episode of Everybody Loves Raymond titled "Baggage?" The one where Ray and Debra have an unspoken battle ov...

Please, for the love of conversation, can we stop with the emoticons already?! I was fine when emoticons were simple smiley or frowny faces....

Ever get that feeling...you're walking along, mindlessly participating in daily activities, when suddenly you have this eerie sensation,...