Nudge The Nest & Pray They Fly
Aubrey: Momma, do skunks smell?
Me: Yes, they stink REALLY bad!
Aubrey: No! Do skunks SMELL?
Me: Yes.
Aubrey: NO! Can they smell their smell?
Me: You know…I don’t know. I’ve never thought about that. Let’s look it up and see.
Aubrey: Look up skunk DOT COM, Momma.
Me: *snickering* Okay….
*page full of links to buy mary-jah-wana pop up every where*
Me: Oopsie, that didn’t work. Here we go. Yes they can and they hate it!
(I read THIS PAGE to her.)
Aubrey: Huh! I didn’t know skunks smell.
I’m still in Alabama because our AC unit is busted and won’t be fixed until tomorrow, but Zeb and Aubrey went home so she could get to school. She had to miss the first two days and we didn’t want her to miss any more. Even though it is 97 degrees in my house, you don’t need to worry about the two of them. They are sleeping in our guest house, but before you get to thinking I’m all fancy-shmancy, I should make it clear that the guest house consists of a bed and a window unit. So there is AC, but if they need to pee they either have to go outside or hoof it into the house.
At any rate, Zeb sent me this picture of Aubrey this morning since I couldn’t be there. He took her shoe shopping yesterday for a new pair of kicks and she said this morning, that her new shoes made her feel, “like a new person.”
Tru dat, little girl. Tru dat.
Some crazy woman named Holly over on The Mom-tage interviewed me for her fabalous website! It’s was a really funny list of questions! Check it out HERE.
YAY! It’s time for another Super (Silly) Mom interview! Ann Imig is another one of my favorite bloggers. I’m pretty sure I could show up for a play date at her house, with dirty hair and no bra and she wouldn’t even look at me funny. She calls herself the Stay-At-Home Humorist, which I think is totally genius and I would be green with envy at her creativity if she didn’t make me laugh so freakin’ hard.
One of my favorite posts over on her blog, Ann’s Rants, is Bedtime with Mussolini, if you have EVER tried to put a child in the bed that didn’t want to go, you will get it.
Ann has also taken her Mommy Humor to a whole new level, by producing the stage show Listen To Your Mother, where local women came together at the Barrymore Theater to read their written reflections on motherhood.
How old are your kids?
My boys are 3 and 6.
What were you doing before you had kids?
Bugging my husband to have kids. Before that I spent some years as an Administrative Assistress (stage actor), sold :30 chunks of advertising in Entertainment Tonight and Relic Hunter, and got a Masters in Social Work.
Most surprising thing about motherhood?
The beauty, the pain, and the pee smell.
Have you always wanted to be a writer? How did you get to where you are today?
I have always been a writer, but only in the past year did I attempt to bring it under the perfectionistic and self-sabotaging umbrella of “professional.” Clinically speaking I am “Hobby Incapable with a dual diagnosis of financially delusional.”
Tell us about Listen To Your Mother.
Listen To Your Mother is a Mother’s Day production in which local writers read their own writing about motherhood to their own community. I created the show in order to celebrate the collective human experience of mothering, and to take the audience on a journey that validates, inspires, educates and most importantly– makes everyone laugh so hard they resent me for not scheduling an intermission.
How can people get involved with LTYM?
The second annual LTYM is scheduled for Mother’s Day May 8, 2011 at The Barrymore Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. Auditions will occur in 2011. I am in the process of considering how/when to bring the show to more cities. In the mean time, people should join the Facebook fan page and watch the website www.listentoyourmothershow.com for updates.
Bonus Question: What’s the most absurd thing you have ever heard yourself say to your kids? (Mine is “WE DO NOT BITE BALLS! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?”)
“Good night stars, Goodnight room, Goodnight Chow jumping over the moon.”
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