Category: Relationships
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Sissies
I was sitting here trying to think of what to write today.. Nothing came to mind.. But then, as my husband was walking out of the door he provided me with a whole armament…
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I’m back!
Well. Well. Well. So the kids decided, after all, that a Disney Post Christmas extravaganza was in order. We got back from delivering them to my parents last night. I must admit, the drive…
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Notes to my Girlfriends Without Kids
One day, when you have kids, you will realize that it is not so disgusting to clean a kids face with your spit. It’s practical. Talking about poop is not gross. If my kids…
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I Get Dizzy Just Watching…
I have two sets of friends who each have three kids. They are brilliant and capable women. I never thought I would be able to have two kids and somehow I pull it off,…
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It’s Just a Song.. I know.
There’s a Ray Charles song that I can remember my grandmother singing when I was a girl. Everytime I hear it, I can picture her singing it – it is so vivid I can remember…
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High School Reunions…
Happiness is watching five of the snobbiest girls from your high school shaking their very hefty bottoms to “Hey Macarena” at your ten year reunion. It was dizzying. I hate that I got so…
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Old Friends.. Sat on Their Park Bench Like Bookends
I am going to see my closest friend tomorrow. She has recently had her second child, a beautiful daughter named Maysa – she plans on calling her May. We haven’t seen each other in over…
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True Love…
They can’t keep their hands off each other and their faces are so close that they must be breathing in only each other’s breath.. kisses in the middle of a crowded breakfast nook where…
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Setting Fire To The Apron Strings…
My visit with my mom was, well, nice. But, I find myself, this Monday morning, looking up article after article about mending the strains between mothers and daughters that seem, in the most cliched way…
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Ok.. umm. So.. It Goes a Little Like This..
Holy BU-jeeeeeebus!!!!! Last night as I tucked my formerly innocent, tender faced six year old into his bed to dream about knights and horses and fast cars and things that have nothing (nothing!) to…