Parenting

My kids are both in school this year.  My son even has “full-day” kindergarten (in quotes, because in what world does the day end at 2:30?).  I was supposed to have extra time.  But where is it? Turns out, the kids rarely have five full days of school in a row.  There’s Labor Day, Columbus [...]

When I went to college, there was a fellow student who would only wear shorts – never pants.  Since I went to college in Rochester, NY, there were some seriously freezing cold days, and yet “Shorts Guy” (which we always called him) only wore shorts.  Years ago, I was telling a coworker this story, and [...]

It was a regular day, at the end of the summer.  My kids had just finished their sports camp, and we were all sitting down for lunch, when I glanced at my daughter’s hair and saw a small bug.  I flicked it away, but, being curious, I Googled lice.  And guess what they look like?  [...]

It felt like just yesterday, when I was laying on my left side all day long, every day, on bed rest for 7 weeks.  In reality, it was almost 7 years.  But it really wasn’t that long ago. This past weekend, I think my daughter aged 10 years.  She started playing with our neighbor, a [...]

…. But I’ve been feeling a lot of guilt lately. I wrote on Facebook that I was at Disney while my sister had a baby, my daughter was in a cast, and my husband attended his grandmother’s funeral.  This was all true.  I was hanging out with Mickey while members of my family needed me.  [...]