Adventures in Parenting

Here at the Rains Compound, things have been on a steady decline. Things such as housekeeping, laundry, food quality, mental health, attitudes, have not been what they once were. I must admit, most of the time the aforementioned can go either way on any given day.  My dishwasher exploded and has yet to be replaced. I made up a chore chart that has yet to be followed. After attempting to eat off the dishes little Natey washed, I decided it is just easier for me to wash all the dishes by hand. It is not fun.  We have all been...

My Nate just turned 10 last week. As a 10-year-old, he thinks he needs technology. He does not have a smart phone, nor an ipad. He does, however, use my phone as his own as well as my Macbook. He actually has taught me how to use this Mac of mine as I was a PC for decades. I digress. I happened to be googling the other day and glanced at the Google history. I could tell most of what I had Googled and what Nate had Googled. (How great is it that Google is a verb now?) The following...

I used to be cool. I would wear clothes that were in style for the decade, put make up on, fix my hair, and wear cute shoes. My weekends were spent eating at restaurants and going out with friends. Some weekends I would even go out dancing and stay out until the wee hours of the morning. Over spring break, the kids found some old pictures and my and The Big D’s yearbooks from High School. It was so fun to look back and tell stories of the ‘good ol days’ to The Little Rains Children. What I had not...