Good morning! Just a drop-in. We returned yesterday from our quick NYC turnaround trip to see 3 Broadway shows. I do other things, but we go to NY for Broadway.
Tomorrow I’ll have a report. Yesterday, I returned home and napped.
Good morning! Just a drop-in. We returned yesterday from our quick NYC turnaround trip to see 3 Broadway shows. I do other things, but we go to NY for Broadway.
Tomorrow I’ll have a report. Yesterday, I returned home and napped.
Just glad you are safely home.
So glad the weather held up for you, with 80+ on both Friday and Saturday. The rain held off until Sunday afternoon, and it looks very rainy today, and showery much of the week, so your timing was perfect.
Cannot wait to hear all about it!!!
Ramin! Kaye, I have a great picture with Ramin!
You’re right, Jeff, our timing was perfect. But, I appreciate your heads-up about the weather ahead of time!
Wow, I would have loved to have that experience. Here is a book review that I did today that I want to share:
Wow, You Look Terrible!: How to Parent Less and Live More
Carol’s review May 05, 2025 · edit
it was amazing
bookshelves: 2025, humor
I don’t think I would give this book to a newly married couple, they might decide not to have children! But it is a great book for a couple who have a child in the toddler age. It is book with survival tactics of the unspoken dark moments of child rearing written with a truckload of humor, sometimes dark, sometimes uproarious!! A few times i was laughing so loud that my husband came to check on me.
There are solutions that are diabolical that I would never try but then there some very doable ones like purgatory cabinet.
The purgatory cabinet is where you secretly place an item that you want vanished. An example is a particularly obnoxious toy that someone gave your child. Think of one that makes a earth shattering noise every time your child pushes a button. When the child is not in the room. You sneak the toy out of the room and put in the purgatory cabinet. It stays there until the child demands it back. Now if you are lucky and the child does not notice that it is gone after a week is gone, you can dispose of it in the manner that you choose. I wish I had this tip when I had my son!!
There are tips on how you can escape, especially helpful if you have two or more children. Sometimes you need me time and time to decompress. My example in this case is when my cousin gave a birthday party for her twins. She invited sixteen children, something that I would never do! She organized activities, and to minimize the mess, she provided birthday cake but no ice cream. (Boo, I wanted ice cream!) Every time was fine until they left the table then there was total chaos. High noise, high amount of movement and everything going on everywhere. I was invited to assist with the party but my face must have reflected my inner panic. iIt was too much sensory overload. She wisely took me and three other children who were reacting in the same way to the living room. There we settled down in relief and I read some children’s books to them and had a peaceful discussion with them.
So sometimes you need an escape when you are a parent or an assistant to a parent.
I highly recommend this book for survival tips for parenthood.
This sounds like so much fun Carol. I’d like to read it even though there are no toddlers left in our family. Even my grandchildren are well past that stage; the oldest one is 23 already.
Thanks, Carol! I’m going to pass this on to my sister for her adult children.