Today, my mood is content. My kids and I have been having the most wonderful week. They have been super helpful, which is always a surprise. Like everyone else, we have been home due to the virus that is circulating around. And now that it's summer, they have been getting really bored and antsy. So, I gave them an idea last week: go through their closets, dressers, and their entire rooms, getting rid of any clothes that don’t fit them anymore. Or rather I should say, getting ready to get rid of their old clothes. See, we realize that there is no reason to throw away your old clothes like garbage. What we do every few months to every year (depending on whether there is a growth spurt in progress, like two years ago when my youngest boy was growing half a foot in three months) is we take out all of their clothes and put them in a pile in the middle of the floor. Whatever they don’t like goes into the Staten Island clothes donations pile. Whatever they aren’t sure

My mood today is confused.  I am black. That much I am sure about. Oh, and, I'm also a woman. Last time I checked. There's a lot of good going on right now. While it was very tragic for George Floyd to lose his life, it's also caused many good things to happen. There's a renewed attention being placed on the role of police. White people all over the country are coming out for the black cause. I marched. My family marched. It's the least we could do. Now I'm not down with some of the tactics of other protesters, but what can I say? Everyone is going to express their rage differently. Some people march. Other people go on Facebook. As long as everyone does their part it means things are going to change. And for the better. My kids are black. I say that because how do you know my husband isn't Filipino or white? I want them to grow up in a world where they aren't targets. Where they don't have a chance of having the police shoot at them or lock them up

My mood today is frustrated. While you may be saying, hey, wait, that's the same as frazzled and stressed, it isn’t really. I am frustrated with some of the things that have been going on around here. First, my kids have been super unhelpful lately. I asked them to help me make dinner last night, and it was a total disaster. Second, I haven’t been able to get my hair done properly in quite some time, as my hair salon is not yet open, and my hair dresser friend hasn’t had time for me to trade with her. Finally, I haven’t been able to go to the gym at all in much too long. This has led to my current mood, of frustration. Last time I posted, my kids were in school. Now it is summer, but they were off from school for quite a while. That can really make you want to pull your hair out. I mean, they just want to run around and play all day, but I take education quite seriously. I am a hairdresser by trade, and I know that education is really the ticket to a better li

My mood today is frazzled and stressed. I had to get the kids to their kickboxing and karate practices, and with two boys and a girl, that can be easier said than done. They weren't satisfied with the sandwiches I made for them, and they wanted extra juice boxes to share with their friends. When it was all said and done, I had made them each two sandwiches with bologna and Swiss, tossed in some fruit snacks, and an extra juice box each. But that wasn't the worst of it. This other mom wanted to have some kind of issue with me, and I couldn’t quite figure out what her problem was. She was yelling that I cut her off, but it was in the parking lot. I didn’t steal her space, and I used my blinker even. I think she was just in a bad mood, looking for someone to take it out on. To top it all off, I almost got into a fender bender on the way home. Some crazy dude decided today was the day to blow through a stop sign, and he nearly hit me. Of course my heart was jumping