You’ll Shoot Your Eye Out (Part II)

The other night we introduced the boys to the joy and hilarity that is A Christmas Story.  As a kid, I loved the movie because I thought it was hysterical.  As a mother, I love the movie because it is cinematic vindication.  It’s one, big nose-thumbing “I told you so.”  All the fretting and the…

Trust me, I’m Your Mother

Dear children, It’s your mother.  Not only am I your mother, but I have a mother too.  And she had a mother, and she had a mother and so on and so on and so on, just like that old shampoo commercial from the 70s.  Not only that, but I grew up watching reruns of…