Here in the Northeast, we have three more weeks of summer vacation left. School doesn’t start until September 9. This may be incomprehensible to many of you who have had your kids back in school for weeks but rest assured, we get out at the very ass-end of June. By the time your kids are sick of the town pool, mine haven’t even taken finals yet.
Over on Family Circle’s Momster blog, I wrote a post about subversive tactics to use with your kids in the fight against summer sloth. There’s nothing quite as satisfying as tricking your kids into thinking.
The Puggles were supposed to tell you about the post, which came out a while back, but they totally dropped the ball. Their two favorite people in the whole world–CC and #4– went out of town at the same time.
They were beside themselves.
Needy Puggles paint an ugly picture. I’m pretty sure they got drunk.
It certainly would explain that battery of late-night texts they sent from my phone that were full of poor grammar and spelling and looked as though they were typed by someone not in the possession of thumbs. Not to mention the pictures I found there.
Anyway, I’m totally counting that as one of the links today, so go check it out: Picking Your Battles in the Fight Against Summer Sloth on Family Circle’s Momster.
Maybe you don’t have kids; maybe you’re single and dating. Maybe you do have kids and you’re dating. Maybe you want to be reminded of why you don’t date anymore, or how glad you are you got married if solely for the get-out-of-dating-free pass it gives you. Regardless, go check out Amy Neswald’s guest post on Psychology Today. She gives us Five Awkward First Dates You Probably Want to Avoid.
The best damn recipe for strawberry frosted cupcakes ever, on Marge Perry’s A Sweet and Savory Life… and if you don’t tear up a little at the story, you may be Satan.
Here’s a great resource I found on Twitter: 13 Inspirational TED Talks for Writers from Aerogramme Writers’ Studio.
And finally, if you’re a man who is planning on skinny dipping in Scandanavia, Beware the Pacu. It’s a fish. That’s all I’m going to say about it.
*whistling*
Oh, come on, you at least have to click through and see the picture.
Happy Sunday.
JM Randolph, accidentalstepmom 
I’ll take the drowning, please.
That article is nuts!
Yes. Yes it is.
Loved your post on Momster. Good job! Thanks for the link to the TED talks. I love listening to those on my walks and it’s always good to find talks specific to writing and the creative process. That fish – wow – it’s beyond bizarre. Fun reading!
Thanks for stopping by! I love your stuff!
Ug, I HATE when Uncle Jesse gets his paws on my cell phone. He keeps Tweeting out Instagram photos of his kibble.
Better than pictures of where his doodleballs used to be, I guess.
Ozzy has that same green toy! Is it a snake? Ozzy’s is half gone, so I don’t really remember what it used to be. He does that to most of his toys.
It is a snake! It’s a brand new grrr. It replaced the smelly dragon and the smelly former tiger.