At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

How many times can you say, "No yanking on one another's genitals?" Everything is hilarious until someone starts crying.

My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.

I'm most certainly not the Beatles.

At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

I consider a day without running a crappy day. When I don't get to run, I am a grump, but some days my schedule just doesn't allow me to.