As my rough band of renegades and I strode into Snappy Tomato, all seven heads in the place turned, a mixture of fear and awe plainly visible on their faces. I paused for a moment, lowered my aviators, and took a quick look around the room. “It’s in the back, gang,” I muttered to the […]

Yesterday morning, my husband and I hauled ourselves and our little ones out of bed and drove three hours up to Santa Claus, Indiana, for a visit to… HOLIDAY WORLD!! It was our second visit and I have to say we’re completely hooked. I know the place sounds completely kitschy- and it is- but Holiday […]

The dreaded day of the swim party arrived… And, just as I had suspected, none of the other parents standing around the pool had any plans whatsoever to go in the water. I initially decided to handle the situation by ripping off my cover-up, quickly getting in the water up to my chin, and staying […]

I haven’t been writing on this blog quite as often as I’d like. But you should know that things are going really, really well. For the first time in my life, I absolutely love all of my freelance jobs. I’m working a lot, but the work is really fun. And while entertaining two small children […]

After a long, cold winter filled with slippery ice and sharp winds and endless, endless snow, after months of plaintive mewling from children wondering yet again why they couldn’t go outside, after countless lost mittens and frozen toes, after arctic treks to school each morning and pitch black darkness at five in the afternoon… Spring […]