Obviously, it hasn't been writing. My last serious (by serious, I mean more than a few words) blog post was around this time last year. I have found that the busier I am, the harder it is for me to write even though it seems the opposite would be true. If I'm busier, it would be …
Continue reading Here’s What I’ve Been Up to For the Past Year
Monday was Darling Daughter's 17th birthday. I swear she was 5 just last week. I guess I blinked. But anyway, in our family, when it's your birthday, you get to pick what you want for dinner and, most importantly, what kind of birthday cake you would like. For several years in a row now, Darling …
Continue reading Further Proof That Martha Really Doesn’t Live Here
I have written in the past about my lack of mad decorating skillz, but now I am offering proof. Here is a picture of a gingerbread house Darling Daughter and I assembled this past weekend. Notice I said "assembled" rather than "made". I bought a kit at the grocery store that had all the parts …
Lysa Terkeurst was not the only one to hit the big city this weekend. On Friday, Darling Daughter, one of her friends, and her mom, L, and I went into New York City to see Cirque Du Soleil. The show we saw was called Wintuk. It's the story of a young boy's search to bring snow …
For those of you out there struggling through 2 AM feedings, potty training, the terrible twos, the first day of kindergarten and all those other wonderful but sometimes grueling milestones that come with raising younger children, here's a glimpse of what's to come when those little ankle biters grow into teenagers. First, just a little …
As I am sure you are all fully aware, August is here. Although I am loving the warm summer days, and the longish daylight hours of this season, August is bittersweet to me this year for several reasons. They are: 1. College Son is not 100% sure he does not want to go back to …
In our house, we never rarely use bad language. My kids are not little, so it would not be the end of the world if they heard mom or dad "slip" and say a curse word now and then, but we don't have to worry about them repeating things at inopportune times anymore, like in Sunday School …
My grandparents came from Italy, so when my daughter had to sign up for her 9th grade classes, I was thrilled when I saw she chose Italian as her foreign language. I assumed that she wanted to study the language of her heritage and converse with her great-grandmother in her native tongue. Later I found out it was …
Continue reading Un Ballo in Maschera or Carol Goes to the Opera
It's happened. The thing I've been dreading since the day she was born 16 years ago has happened. We already had a son when we found out we were expecting our second child due in March of 1992. Of course, we were thrilled. For both pregnancies, we decided that we did not want to find …
You have already heard about my very educational and culture filled trip to the opera. What I did not tell you was that the morning of the opera, I had my annual appointment with my GYN and she came very close to losing me as a patient. I have some very strict rules about the …
I Throw Like a Girl 