• Weekend Rain

    I sit on my couch, surrounded by sick and napping children, rain pattering on the roof, the radio playing low.  I want to write a typical post, a “Day in the Life” of…

  • Drizzly Zoo Trip

    Faced with the prospect of a rainy Saturday with the kids by myself, I contemplated staying home – them destroying the house, fighting, bouncing off the walls.  I contemplated the aquarium – eleventy…

  • Summer “Break”

    Summer ‘vacation’ is so different as a working parent!  Ugh, 3 months to find something for the kids to do each week, 3 months of slight guilt that they aren’t getting any lazy…

  • Memorial Day Weekend

    We had a MDW that was action packed and also leisurely.  Since the kids have short attention spans, all of our “action” was relatively short, punctuated with long spans of lounging.  On Saturday,…

  • Dinners

    An old college friend with three elementary-school aged children was recently widowed.  Her husband was in his early forties when he died – he had been dealing with cancer a long while, which is…