It has been quite some time since my last post. It is mostly the lack of motivation to write because I have no lack of things to write about. I mean really, do I talk about the great home-school vs. public school debate, my ever …
It’s very easy for me to talk to people most of the time. I can talk about anything. (Probably why I married a realllly great listener.) It’s a gift I happily attribute to my mother, though she is on a whole other level. She has …
The other night I made an off-handed comment to my brother that I had to upload my pictures to facebook “because otherwise what’s the point of taking them?” I wasn’t completely serious, but in one of those awful moments of instant self-realization, I knew that …
Summer is here and somehow having no schedule is just as stressful sometimes as keeping up with the weekly school routine. At least for a person like me who does not plan things out ahead of time. I have a few things penciled in here …
George Bernard Shaw said, “Youth is wasted on the young.” Of course “young” is not as narrow a group as we’d like to think. Sure, teens get a bad rap for being a head-strong, reckless, live-for-today kind of people. Heck, we’ve now got scientific data …
I don’t like being misunderstood. If someone makes an assumption about the motives of my words or actions without taking the time to clarify- I get very frustrated. Why is this? Well, come on- isn’t it bad enough to have someone think poorly of me …
Dear Husband, Sometimes when you come home from work I seem frustrated. Sometimes I attack you with too many complaints about screwing on the soda lids so darn tight, or I greet you quickly between throwing sauce on a pizza and sending one of the …
I was driving to get coffee a few weeks ago while my youngest slept in the car and my three year old- well, she was content anyway. I won’t lie, these are the carefully orchestrated mommy moments that I dream of. (I promise I wasn’t …