• Leftovers

    It’s all leftover food, leftover feelings around here.  We brought a lot of food home from the wedding, which has helped keep us eating good dinners even though Mama didn’t have a weekend…

  • #wedding

    When Jack was just a baby, we took him to a convention of barbershop singers in Nashville, which my father helped coordinate as part of his job. All of my siblings attended– the…

  • Jack. Eight.

    The universal and the unique are at war when parents try to describe their children to other people.  Jack is Everyman at eight – everything I could say about him will sound like…

  • Family Fun

    Yesterday we took the boys to the spring game on campus.  We spent forty dollars on hot dogs (when she told me the total I nearly fainted), and the boys dusted the pollen-covered…

  • MILP Roundup

    I am part of a group of women who blog(ged), all lawyers and moms, who have been supporting one another online for many years (nearly a decade for some, and I’ve been involved…