It’s a bleak time of year, it’s a bleak news cycle, and I need a little sunshine. My newest niece is a ray of sunshine, of course – I cannot wait to meet her. Boy do I love seeing pictures and videos of her hiccups and sneezes and gas-induced smiles, though. My kids make me…
XOXO
I’ll admit that it was naive of me to not anticipate the response of southern governors to the Paris attacks, but it caught me by surprise. There but for the grace of God goes my baby Craig. (Photos most obviously not mine – google image searched.) “I want to bury my children and sit…
Love is a Battlefield
I am hosting turkey day this year – yay! We have a significant portion of my side of the family coming – two sibs plus my parents. We’ve tried to move Craig into the big boys’ room in advance of their visit, in order to make room for visitors. It is . . . not…
Master of None
Aziz Ansari’s new show – the first season of Master of None came out all at once on Netflix recently – is great. I highly recommend it. It’s all about a diverse group of young friends in New York City – he is an actor, his girlfriend has some kind of job in the music…
Top O the Mornin’
So the boys didn’t have school yesterday, but I had a depo. I always space their Veterans’ Day day off, and when I was asked to cover this depo I chirped “sure!” Ugh. I dealt with it but it made for a stressful day. Today I have an evidentiary hearing, and Jack is telling me…