Mothering Many

Do your kids guilt you to death? One of mine is a champ at the guilt complex. She just knows exactly the buttons to push. See, I had scheduled a hair appointment for Saturday the 8th, so I missed part of her game. And then, all the kids wanted the church to have something going on around Halloween, so I stepped up to the plate to organize that, and after that, I got the kids signed up for the football and cheerleading, and her first competition is that weekend, and she. will. not. let. up. on. that.

And don’t even ask how she’s taking this Vegas trip. She accused me of using that to miss her regional competition (for which they aren’t even qualified yet, mind you) and it’s not even the same weekend. Of course, maybe if I dialed up the Excalibur Las Vegas they could fit me in. Even though I have already turned in the form that says if the team makes the cut, we’ll go to regionals. Even thought they are the day after Thanksgiving. And yes, she saw me turn in that form. What. Ev. Er.

I just checked out my search engine hits. I do that now and again, just for giggles. I’m now the sixth result for “grits in the crockpot”. Now, just a few days before I wrote my post with that name, I had searched on the same term to get a recipe for same. I didn’t find one exactly like I needed, so I just did it how I needed to do it, and hoped for the best. My recipe worked, and so, apparently, did my post title. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have paid a search engine marketing firm to get a better result in just three days.

Yes, I know that looks like a typo, but it’s not. For once. Because I know I make many, many, typos, ya’ll. I make typos that even the spell checker misses. I am in fact, the typo queen. But enough about me.

Axcesspoints is a relatively new site, designed to help you keep important information at your virtual fingertips. Think of it as an online safe deposit box. You know you can use one of those to store important papers, and axcesspoints works the same way. You enter information there that can be accessed in an emergency. Make a list of your contacts, type in medical histories, record the location of important documents. Then pay axcesspoints a monthly fee to store it while you get on with your life. If you need it, there it is, if you don’t then that’s even better.

That works.

Boys and Dh= off to football games
Big girls= off to get pictures made
Two babies= still at home with
Me= hopping

and this concludes our maternal poetry interlude.