Today was one of those days that I didn’t even have time to breathe, much less blog.  It went about like this: Woke up at 0-dark-hundred to meet a friend at the gym.  (Last spring, I fell off the exercise wagon and got left eating dust.  I’ve missed my workouts and have been planning to [...]

While on vacation, I picked up my husband’s copy of Lone Survivor. It isn’t my typical fluffy chick lit mystery, but I’m always a sucker for a true story. This is the eye-witness account of Marcus Luttrell, Navy SEAL, and the only surviving member of Operation Redwing — a mission to capture or kill a [...]

I would know it’s time for school to resume from the proliferation of papers alone.  On Tuesday I got 4, yes that’s FOUR envelopes from the school district in my mailbox.  That’s in addition to the packet of papers I was handed the same day at the new student orientation.  Add that to the three [...]

TGIF, y’all!  My kids are still in bed.  All three of them.  And it’s almost 9AM.  Glorious. It took me all summer to train their body clocks to accommodate my schedule.  And as irony would have it, next week I’ll be begging them to wake up at 7:30 to make the bus.  Life is so [...]

I have a friend who is fond of saying of her children that she spends the first two years of their lives trying to get them to walk and talk and the next ten years trying to get them to sit down and shut up.  Oh how I can relate.  As a parent I stumbled [...]

Thought some of my “regulars” might find this post by my aunt, Midlife Mom, interesting.  This is where we spent our two weeks in Maine. Meanwhile here I sit, trying to wrap my brain around the fact that summer’s almost over and my kids start school two weeks from today.  And yet I realize that [...]

I’m pulling this post from the archives.  Not much has changed in the 18 months since I posted this.  Today I take my kids for their elementary school orientation.  I can’t believe my middle child is starting kindergarten this year.  God bless her dear teacher. Last year, when we found our little princess hanging by [...]

I guest posted for Megan last Friday.  Check it out!