It’s quiet around here… maybe a little too quiet. The cats have gradually come out of hiding, casting furtive glances around the room, listening carefully for the boys that had just recently been jumping out of the woodwork with Nerf “guns”. I was repeatedly assured that no one was aiming at the cats, however I [...]
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those Fabulous Bicker Boys
Posted in Motherhood, get along like cats and dogs, tagged Fabulous Bicker Boys, Fabulous Bicker Brothers, Nerf guns on August 30, 2010 | 5 Comments »
the home stretch
Posted in Motherhood, tagged Jane Koenen Bretl, back-to-school, chores, school shoes, allowance, life lessons on August 23, 2010 | 6 Comments »
… it’s the final kick, digging deep, rounding the bases and heading for home alone. The school supplies are packed, the backpacks bulging with loose-leaf paper and expectations. The boys have new clothes, new shoes (cue foreshadowing music here) and shaggy haircuts, but two out of three ain’t bad. This has been the happiest summer [...]
reality check on the prairie
Posted in Motherhood, something important, I'm sure, tagged Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder on August 17, 2010 | 8 Comments »
I am ready to let go of the dream that either of my children will ever read the complete boxed set of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House on the Prairie — yes, I mean the collection that I purchased before they were born and had planned to read aloud to them while they played quietly [...]
letters to camp
Posted in Motherhood, seasons, tagged homesickness, motherhood, summer camp on August 15, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This summer, The Little One went to his first-ever overnight camp, five nights in a cabin in the woods. Swimming, archery, campfires, horseback riding, night hikes with the fireflies — this was the real deal, just as I always imagined camp would look like, based on the book settings and movie locations and my imagination. [...]
summer forecasts
Posted in Motherhood, seasons, tagged summer on August 2, 2010 | 18 Comments »
“Hello friends,” says a wee voice from somewhere off the face of the earth. ~ Here I am, alive and kicking, sweating and bitching about the heat, and gratefully enjoying this summer with my boys more than any other summer season on record. There have been notable highs, seasonable lows, with scattered life lessons and [...]
Proudest Moments
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged Writer's Digest, Jane Friedman, Christina Katz, The Ultimate Mom, There Are No Rules, radio interview, Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, CBS Sunday Morning, The Prosperous Writer, book signing, anthology on May 14, 2010 | 7 Comments »
One person’s humor can be another person’s yawn. One person’s proud can be someone else’s embarrassment. On either side of the fence, I find that most things in life are not as they appear on the surface, because there exists the chapters before and the chapters not yet written, and all we see is a [...]
Life is funny, or why I started screaming at the TV
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged CBS Sunday Morning, Erma Bombeck, Erma Bombeck Writers Workshop, Lost in Suburbia, Mother's Day, motherhood, Rebel Without a Minivan, Tracy Beckerman on May 10, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Have I mentioned before that life is funny? It bears mentioning again, because it is the only explanation I have for why my Mother’s Day included blood-curdling screams. Like most of my adventures, this one started out innocently enough. As I have mentioned 53 times already, I attended a writing conference a few weeks ago. [...]
Why Erma?
Posted in Motherhood, Writing, tagged bookmobile, Erma Bombeck, Erma Bombect Writing Workshop, Darrelyn Saloom on April 20, 2010 | 17 Comments »
“Why Erma?” someone asked. Erma Bombeck was the first humor writer that I ever read. As a kid, when I had exhausted the stack of books from the summer bookmobile, I would browse through the house for reading material. There on the living room bookshelf, near the Reader’s Digest Condensed versions and the set of [...]
back on the horse
Posted in Foodies, Motherhood, tagged Italy, new start, parenting, pork belly tacos, rigatoni con la pajata, roman cuisine, Rome, umbilical cord on March 2, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Well, hello there. I am back from our trip to Rome. It was a fascinating trip, full of surprises and lots of fabulous food and one late hiccup in the plan. We had never been away from the kids for a full week, and to land 5000 miles away pushed me out to the edge [...]
guest blogger: Cheryl Conway-Nelson
Posted in Motherhood, tagged Cheryl Conway-Nelson, guest blog, snow on January 27, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Today’s guest post is from woman-extraordinaire Cheryl Conway-Nelson. I am not sure how to spell ‘extraordinaire’, and when I looked it up in the dictionary, it was not there: it should be, sandwiched between extracurricular and extrasensory. Her picture would be in there too, next to the definition, for balancing five kids, volunteerism, community causes, [...]
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