Just in case you haven’t managed to get your kids all excited about April Fool’s Day, Disney Channel has your back. That’s right. In between episodes of Hannah Montana and Sonny With a Chance, Disney has been telling kids how to short sheet a bed in detail.
I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am. After all, now there’s a chance that I’ll be able to start sliding under the covers April 1st, only to be trapped in a short sheeted bed. Of course, I’ve never been a big fan of April Fool’s Day, even when I was a …read more

My son Truman picked Barack Obama to be president a year before he was actually elected. He is psychic that way. He picked the Phillies for the 2008 World Series when the season was still too early too call, he became an LSU fan before the 2007 college football season began (much to the disappointment of my Bama-grad husband), and he named Kyle Busch the winner of several Nascar races but said Jimmy Johnson was more poised to win the Sprint Cup.
Early on in the presidential race, when both the Democratic and Republican nominees were toss-ups, my son proclaimed, “Barack-o …read more