Categorizing Things is Overrated

  • August

    Waiting for our house to be done.  You say our old house is “broken.”  We toured the new house, and you were very concerned that there were no potties in it. The other…

  • Heading to Montgomery

    . . . so the day has arrived that I travel in my suddenly carseat-less car (the seats below where the boys’ carseats usually are? so gross) towards a large hotel in Montgomery,…

  • Parent-Bashing in the Wake of Tragedy

    A letter written after a terrible shooting: Dear people in my facebook feed whose first inclination, after hearing about the Colorado movie theater shooting, was to bash the parents who dared bring their…

  • Drive In

    We took you to the drive-in to see Brave on Saturday night – afterwards you called the drive-in “the big movie that is outside.”  Anyway, you loved it.  We put you in pjs…

  • I’m scared of the dark

    Last night, you woke me in the middle of the night by standing by your grandparents’ grandfather clock and wailing into the dark.  I heard you and came down, picked up you, put…