Posted in Challenges, Miscellaneous on Jan 17th, 2012
I’m not much of a nail biter myself. My bad habit as a kid was sucking my thumb, which I did every night until, at the ripe old age of 9, I became cognizant that it was very uncool and infantile to be sucking one’s thumb in order to get to sleep. I weaned myself [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Reflections on Jan 16th, 2012
It has been a shamefully long time since I have written much of anything, and particularly since I have written here. Shameful mostly to myself, because writing is such an integral part of my being. Yet whenever I need to do it the most, I stop. You see, this particular holiday season has found me [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Dec 2nd, 2011
The other day, Logan brought home a journal he made at school. I had to laugh at the cover, where Logan had spelled his middle name, as he does with every word he doesn’t know how to spell, phonetically. No comment on the misspelled last name.(He and I have been over it many times.) As [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Oct 22nd, 2011
My birthday this year was absolutely FABULOUS. My ex-sisters-in-law (I prefer to call them my sis-out-laws) and I decided to get together in Minneapolis for the weekend. There are three of them, and the youngest of the bunch is attending school in St. Paul, so we drove the 6 hours or so it takes to [...]
Posted in Firsts, Miscellaneous on Oct 4th, 2011
Cody reminds me a lot of myself as a child. He loves to read, gets a little thrill from anything remotely historical, has trouble getting to sleep due to his night-owl tendencies and he’s highly sensitive to unpleasant situations. All of these factors came crashing together last night when Cody flung the door to my [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Sep 10th, 2011
There are many reasons why I’m actually happy that summer vacation is over. This is new for me, as typically I adore having my kids home all summer. Perhaps the biggest relief? The cessation of hearing my name called so often each and every day that I began to tire of the sound of it [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous on Aug 23rd, 2011
Every year, I post a picture of some or all of my kids on the first day of school. This year will be no different. L-R: Rachel, age 13 (8th grade), Cody, age 9 (3rd grade), Logan, age 7 (2nd grade) and Andrea, age 13 (8th grade). The wisps of gray that you see are [...]
Posted in Brags, Miscellaneous on Aug 19th, 2011
The kids and I went shopping for school supplies on Tuesday. They were over-tired to begin with, as I had just picked them up from a 3-day stay with their aunt and uncle where bedtimes were much later than normal. Logan, especially, was whiny, as he tends to be when he hasn’t gotten enough sleep. [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Reflections on Aug 12th, 2011
My newest nephew, Tristan Alan, was born last Thursday, August 4. To say his birth was as exciting to me as my own babies’ births would not be at all an exaggeration. The reason I feel so strongly about Tristan’s entrance into the world is because my sister, Trina, asked me to be there for [...]
Posted in Miscellaneous, Reflections on Aug 7th, 2011
I haven’t blogged for a reeeaaalllllyyyy long time. Which, I guess, duh, you’ve probably noticed, if you’re a regular reader. My dear friend, Amy, a freelance writer who is currently fighting her second battle with breast cancer and has a gorgeously-written blog on the subject, It’s in the Genes, once told me that she gets [...]
