I don’t really care about the NCAA Tournament this year; Well, I’m in a $10 neighborhood pool, so I care a little bit.
The North Carolina vs. Louisville game was starting…
“Those North Carolina cheerleaders have cute uniforms,” I told my husband. As soon as I said it, I wondered why I had (but [...]

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart – a heart so large that everybody’s joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.”
~Mark Twain

On ‘Easter Eve’ (I just made that up),
the eggs had been dyed, baskets were ready and I was putting my 4-year-old son to bed.
I told him he should go right to sleep because we had a big day ahead of us, the Easter Bunny was coming. Then he started asking very specific questions about [...]

My husband is Irish. He used to take off work for St. Patrick’s Day. We’d wake up, have breakfast, get on Metro and head down to the Dubliner on North Capitol Street.
With the shadow of the Capitol building at our backs, we’d take a break for lunch and then head to other Irish [...]

After an over-scheduled day of school, a playdate, and a birthday party – my husband, my son, my sister-in-law, her twins and myself walked from All Fired Up, the twins’ birthday party site, across the street to Café Deluxe (I love this place for ‘dining’ with kids) for a quick, but nice 5:30pm dinner in [...]

Last week I decided I was done with Winter.  All I needed was a couple of 60 degree days and I was through with it.
We’ve done the months of bundling up, mittens, hats, winter coats, wind chilly days.  We’ve done boots and outer wear drying on towels by the front door.
It’s time for Spring!  Easter [...]

What do you do when your 4-year-old son vomits incredible amounts of medicine, food, liquid, some brown particles, and a few carrots, onto his favorite chair? You throw it away…
That was my first reaction. But the chair in question has been a mainstay in our home. He sits in it, does art [...]

“Men are what their mothers made them.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Boys need instruction, leadership and a good model to follow.
They also need kindness, love and comfort.
No matter how old our ‘little boys’ get, they will always remember-
hugs we give them, bandages we apply, our laps to sit on, encouraging words and knowing that [...]

Last night my 4-year-old son was very tired. We played outside most of the day. Well, my husband and him played mostly, while I cleaned house, got taxes done, paid bills, planned lunches and dinners for the week and did three loads of laundry.
After dinner we played some more until it was apparent [...]

I’m preparing our taxes for our accountant.
Even when we are getting a refund, taxes don’t put me in a great mood.
I look at Social Security withholdings on my husband’s W-2.  Then I remember that we are the generation that will somehow support the aging ‘Baby Boomer’ generation.
Social Security?  I’m not feeling [...]