If you’ve got kids in school, then I’m sure the last thing you want is yet another homework assignment.  Either you’re homeschooling and you have schoolwork coming out your ears, or your kids are in school and their homework has become your own.  Yeah, yeah, I know.  It’s THEIR homework.  But no matter how independent [...]

If you’ve hung around here for very long, you know that I love, love, LOVE summer.  And even more than I adore summer, I detest winter almost as much as pleated pants and the liver and onions my parents made me eat when I was a kid.  It’s the static electricity shocks; the dry, cracked, [...]

This is what greeted me upon my arrival downstairs early this morning. I hardly ever go to bed without cleaning up the kitchen, but last night ended a bit chaotically.  Let me back up.  Everything went just swimmingly all day long.  There was no last minute mad dash around the house to straighten up, no [...]

How Are Parents Supporting Teachers? – Scribbit.  Amen, sistah! 6 Food Mistakes Parents Make – NY Times.  Very interesting.  I might post my personal thoughts and on this topic this week. The Birth Story – Adventures in Babywearing.  Welcome to the world, baby Ivy! Tragedy of Errors – Genesis Moments.  Prepare to weep into your [...]

So I believe I mentioned I’m entertaining tonight.  The last time I had our neighborhood Bunco at my house, I went all out.  Which is another way of saying that I made everything as difficult as possible.  I spent weeks planning the menu and I made all the food from scratch.  I even practiced recipes [...]

Yesterday afternoon I was shopping with my two girls.  I slipped into the dressing room to try on a top, and I brought the girls in with me.  This is nothing new. As I was changing, my 5-year-old daughter asked this question: "Mom, why aren’t you pretty anymore?" K, thanks.