My teenaged daughter would sleep until three o'clock in the afternoon if left to her own devices. I've been trying to wake her up ar...

My boy, Bubba, wanted to open a bottle of Coke. The bottle had a crown cap - not one of those convenient twisty plastic caps. I'm not su...

The other day, my son, Bubba, decided he wanted to make coffee. "Mama," he said. "How to you make coffee?" "You...

I knew it was doomed when the eggs hit the pavement. I was planning to make a cake for our anniversary, but discovered that I had no eggs....

The other day, I baked a cake. After I frosted it, I left it on the counter. It was covered, on a cake dish. The next morning, the cake ha...

Bootsy, our cat, likes to leave an assortment of presents for me on our back deck. These are usually things like dead beetles, dead frogs, d...

"Mama," my twelve-year-old son said. "Can I enter a sweepstake to win a lifetime supply of astronaut ice cream?" I sho...