As news of the Boston Marathon explosions sunk in yesterday, I watched my Twitter and Facebook feeds explode with a range of emotions. Anger. Grief. Shock. Fear. Disbelief. Worry. Dejection. Coming so close on the heels of the Newtown shootings, what happened yesterday seems even more difficult to bear. And yet for precisely this reason, […]
April 16, 2013
Like many kids his age, my son is completely obsessed with Angry Birds. And Hay Day. And Temple Run. And any other game he can get his sticky little jam fingers on. He plays the games on my husband’s iPhone, which my husband lets him borrow for a few minutes each day after he gets […]
April 10, 2013
Well. Bruiser’s kindergarten photo came home in his backpack yesterday. (His SPRING school photo. Because apparently, they grow SO MUCH in six months that without TWO sets of school photos per year, we wouldn’t be able to recognize them.) I think Dennis summed it up best when he looked at it and said… “Who farted?” […]
April 9, 2013
Dennis and I were asked recently to judge a dog contest at Cheekwood Gardens here in Nashville. We said yes immediately– Our kids are dog-crazy, we love Cheekwood, and the idea of spending quality time outside together on a beautiful spring day seemed like a perfect Sunday afternoon. The day of the contest dawned damp […]
April 8, 2013
Catalogued somewhere in the darkest corners of my mind are a few too many memories from my teenage years that now, as a parent, I’d rather forget. They’re as hazy today as they were then, distorted by alcohol and late nights. But they all follow the same pattern, the same dance. At frat parties or […]
March 26, 2013
I know, I know- I haven’t posted for a few days now, but that’s only because last week was Bruiser’s 6th birthday, and he reacted with the same crazed zeal of a Bridezilla preparing for her wedding. And so last week was filled with special birthday activities. Dinner INSIDE McDonalds! Pottery painting at Brushfire! An […]
March 21, 2013
Last Tuesday night was my eight-year-old’s annual school music performance. The first year she performed as a kindergartner, I videotaped the whole thing and took about a hundred photos, because OH MY GAW MY BABY WAS ON A STAGE. Since that time, though, I have to confess that the novelty has worn off, and subsequent […]
March 11, 2013
Now that I have a little more down time than I did last year, my husband and I are finally APPRECIATING it. And for us, that’s huge. We’ve been spending the last few months building up our marriage, spending time as a family, figuring out our spiritual needs, getting more sleep, eating better, and exercising […]
March 9, 2013
