I’d really like a report card. I’d love a quarterly review. I’d do almost anything for a tiny bit of FEEDBACK. I just want someone with a little authority to tell me if I am, or if I am not, doing a good job as a mom. And my husband doesn’t count.

Around 11:40 AM on any given Saturday I start to get antsy. I pace around the house and hover around the back door, hoping to catch a glimpse of his car pulling into the driveway. The dog becomes aware of my sheer excitement and starts to follow me around, tail wagging. The girls sense that [...]

I’ve never been a big fan of women in general. Yes, you read that correctly. Let’s face it – women are usually pretty catty. I do understand that saying that may implicate me to be catty as well. But if I am being honest, in the past I have found that if you get a [...]

  I have never been happier for a New Year to usher in. There is nothing like the gift of a fresh start to help you shake off something like viral pneumonia, RSV and Pink Eye in your household over the holidays. Cosmic Perspective? Perhaps…. As you know, I had visions of making Christmas morning [...]

I’m aging and it’s happening faster than I expected. First it was subtle, like the increasingly obvious silence between me and my rotating batch of hairdressers whom I suddenly had nothing in common with. Where we used to exchange stories of our similar weekend adventures, my attempt at discussing the newest offering from Disney Channel [...]