>Sometimes, I like to pause from daintily dusting knick knacks or stirring cookie dough and imagine what life would be like if my family weren’t entirely perfect. I mean, I’ve read stories written by women whose teenagers make mistakes and husbands are inattentive and toddlers throw fits, but I know nothing personally about what that […]
December 2, 2009
>As promised, here’s the complete interview from this week’s Nashville Scene edition of Suburban Turmoil. There’s been an interesting discussion in the comments of the Scene and I hope it continues. Regardless of how you feel about Adult Babies, I thought Bella’s answers were fascinating, so here they are in their entirety.How did all this […]
December 1, 2009
>Many of you have been requesting my Thanksgiving recipes from years past- Sorry I’m so late on this, but for those of you still looking for something fabulous, here’s my menu (We order a Cajun deep fried turkey each year, so I’m off the hook on that one!)… The ultimate hit is this sausage and […]
November 24, 2009
>I have always dreamed of becoming a PTO mom. I mean, technically I’ve been a PTO member at my stepdaughters’ schools for years… but having two small children pretty much limited my participation to sending in food for bake sales and team dinners. As disappointing as it was to miss out on all that PTO-cialization, […]
November 23, 2009
>Teens and privacy. It’s one of those things we parents don’t really like to talk about- Either we’re judged as clueless and having our heads stuck in the sand for giving our teenagers their privacy… or we’re nosy and shattering our teenagers’ trust for poking through their texts, online activity and jeans pockets. I share […]
November 20, 2009
>I’m guessing my friend Anissa Mayhew started her day on Tuesday like many of us. She probably got her three kids off to school, worked on some things, Twittered, packed for her upcoming cruise… and then had a massive stroke. I’m still trying to wrap my brain around it. Anissa and her family have weighed […]
November 19, 2009
>My husband and I were arguing yesterday in the car. (Why yes! We do argue! Although it’s only about, you know, whether Ernie or Burt is cooler, or what the lyrics really are to Blondie’s “Rapture.” Never any REAL. ISSUES. This is blogland, after all!) Punky and Bruiser were sitting in the backseat behind us. […]
November 17, 2009
>Okay, okay, okay. OKAY. By popular demand, I present to you… MY EARLOBES. Here’s the good, normal, non-deformed earlobe. The one that’s safe for public viewing. The red mark, by the way, is because of the clip-on earring I just took off. And here is the bad, abnormal, amputated, monstrosity of an earlobe. It’s a […]
November 12, 2009
>When I arrived at my parents’ home for a visit a few weeks ago, I put away my things, got the kids settled, and sat down with my mom for our traditional catching-up chat. We talked about various family friends- who was getting married, who was getting divorced, whose kids had gone into rehab, and […]
November 10, 2009
