Game ON!
Last week I wrote about thoughts that had spun off as a result of my son getting song lyrics wonderfully wrong. Ironically, yesterday my daughter did the EXACT SAME THING and it has sent me into an...
A Cup of Golden Sun
One of my two-year-old son’s favorite songs to sing recently is “Do-Re-Mi” from The Sound of Music. You know, “Doe, a deer, a female deer; Ray, a drop of golden sun; etc.” He belts it, and also gets...
The Letting Go
My daughter started kindergarten two weeks ago, and suddenly she belongs to the world rather than to me. Or so it seems.
After The Kids Are Asleep
Last night my husband and I pretended that we were going to go to sleep before the kids, and they gleefully declared that they would help put us to bed. As we lay on the floor in my son’s room, the...
In the Weeds
I recently heard a colleague say “I’m in the Weeds!” when expressing how overwhelmed she was with her current workload. I chuckled when she said that, having not heard that expression since I was a...
Love to be Loved
When I was in elementary school I was taking swimming lessons at our local park pool, and had the biggest school-girl crush on our instructor. One day, I decided that a good way to get...
Don't Stop Believing
Probably my favorite viral clip from the past year is the “Pep Talk” by the young man portraying the character of “Kid President.” It makes me happy every time I watch it. One of my favorite parts in...
Split Second Chances
My favorite job of all time happened in the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school. I worked at the gas dock of the local marina; the job involved sitting in a chair all day,...
Leave the Edges Wild
A friend once forwarded me an episode of the series “The Song That Changed My Life” which focused on a Cincinnati-based band called Over The Rhine. While I don’t listen to their music, I found myself...
On Mothering
My daughter turned five on Sunday. I can’t believe she is already five and yet I can’t remember my life without her. (I do vaguely recall that it involved more sleep and more t.v. channels that...