I’m not very good at planning romantic surprises. Shocking, I know-but this year, I decided, hell, it’s my turn to Do Something. Plus I have to Do Something to get my mind off the sad reality that I’m not getting this for Valentine’s Day So this weekend I’ve got A Very Special Thing planned for my ...
You know you’re in for a long night when no one has uttered a word in the last 45 minutes, and you’d rather click the “next blog” link over and over again on Blogger than go upstairs, where the bedroom has all the sudden become the size of a prison cell. Last night I composed in ...
I bet you thought there’d be pictures. Sorry. It’s midnight to my poor soccer mom’s body. Not that there’s anything wrong with soccer moms, of course. Trick or Treating was a smashing success. By the end of the loop around Page Hill (it’s a real place, I’m not making it up) ToddlerA had the hang of ...
my neighbor has a daughter, 16, who is in a detention center. Three weeks ago she had a 5 lb, 10 oz baby girl named Grace Ann. I am in love, and I want another baby, NOW. It’s quite possible that Melanie and I freaked this woman out today while we were scrambling through the ...
I had planned to play off sleeping till 10:15 by coming out all bright eyed and being like, “what are you doing playing X box? I’ve been cleaning the bedroom! Let’s get this day going, buster!” But two things screwed up my plan: I said “where’s the baby?” and M replied, with an odd look, “she’s sleeping-I ...