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Miss Mom: No help for the helpless?

By Sylvie Galloway

I was asked recently when I was going to write about politics here on The Spark. The answer was when I found the right topic. The other day I read a news article that quite frankly upset me even more highly then the budget woes that our state’s education system is undergoing. Currently under proposal... »

Miss Mom: My inner nerd

By Sylvie Galloway

By the time you read this, I may or may not have a fully operational computer. The reason for that is that my son installed an evaluation copy of Windows 7, and that copy expired March 1. “No biggie,” I thought. “I’ve installed hardware and software before. I’ve reformatted my hard drive on several... »

Miss Mom: Cleaning the fridge

By Sylvie Galloway

Cleaning the fridge is undoubtedly one of my least favorite tasks. That is mostly because I am highly squeamish when it comes to odd textures and anything that time has altered its make-up to the point that it starts to produce spores. If you are like me you will relate to the following, if... »

Miss Mom: The Movie

By Sylvie Galloway

Have you ever tried to do a simple task only to have so many interruptions that you pretty much want to give up and walk away from that task? If you are a parent, I am sure that the answer could be a resounding YES. So with that scenario in mind, I decided to... »

Miss Mom: With a little help from her friends

By Sylvie Galloway

You ever have one of those weeks, the kind of week where no matter how much you try, you only seem to go backwards, where you find yourself so busy in one aspect of your life that you are too tired at the end of the day to deal with anything else but the... »

Miss Mom: Heroes of adoption

By Sylvie Galloway

It takes a special breed of people to take it upon themselves to open their homes permanently to a stranger. They spend a great deal of money, jump through legal an bureaucratic hoops and sometimes wait for years before that new stranger/family member becomes a resident in their home. Such however is the norm... »

Miss Mom: Cooking without skill

By Sylvie Galloway

Miss Mom goes video. Every so often Miss Mom will tame her hair, glob on some mascara and plop herself in front of her webcam to present her column in a non-written format. The rest of the time, she will be writing her column in her jammies, using liberal doses of coffee to reduce... »

Miss Mom: Confessions of a list-a-holic

By Sylvie Galloway

I have this tendency to make lists. I make chore lists, grocery lists, lists of projects needing to be done around the house, lists of tasks I have taken on that I need to get to, lists of bills in needing of paying and when they are due and lots of other lists. These... »

Miss Mom: Home on Leave

By Sylvie Galloway

Last week my son in law got on a plane bound for Kentucky. That in itself isn’t all that unusual, but it does mean several more weeks separated from his wife and young daughter while he is away at work. You see my son in law Derek is a member of the U.S. military.... »

Miss Mom: Bedtime Prayers

By Sylvie Galloway

Once upon a time there where three little children, a little boy and two little girls. Every night, when after bath time the children would climb into bed and wait for mommy to tell them goodnight. She would say bedtime prayers, read Dr. Suess’s The Foot book at least three times, and sing her... »

Miss Mom: Procrastination, what you delaying?

By Sylvie Galloway

Here it is late Monday morning, and I am just now sitting down to write this week’s Miss Mom column. Now I am the type of person that loathes being late for anything. I usually have this column written, edited and submitted at least four days in advance, and often have a rough draft... »

Miss Mom: My need to wrap things

By Sylvie Galloway

Apparently, it is a well-established fact that my gift wrapping skills lack a certain something, like the ability to cut paper in a straight line, make even corners and cut enough paper off the roll the first time to completely cover the package I am intending to wrap. Five-year-olds wrap presents better then I... »

Miss Mom: Of T-shirts And Flat Irons

By Sylvie Galloway

My daughter Ashley’s husband has been away doing his Army basic training for the past several weeks. This coming weekend, he and a buddy will be coming home for the holidays, and Ashley is so excited. Derek had managed to arrange for his buddy’s fiance to meet Ashley, and these to women became instant... »

Miss Mom: Potty Time

By Sylvie Galloway

What time is it when three people jump up and down and cheer when a fourth person uses the bathroom? Why it’s Potty Time of course! If you are wondering why there is such a cause for excitement for such a normal activity, then I need to announce that this fourth person is only... »

Miss Mom: Moving Again Day

By Sylvie Galloway

This past March, my daughter Ashley and her daughter Helene’, the toy strewing toddler, moved out of my house and into her own with her new husband. I freely admit that I spent the night of their honeymoon turning her room into my new office. I was enjoying my new space, dreaming about the... »