I thought about revisiting this blog. Then I read this piece, cried a little at the reality of it and went to Facebook to whine. That’s when I realized my…
Nine comes with very big feelings…very big emotions. Nine puts him in a place where he wants to be cuddled and needs security but he needs solitude and privacy just…
It’s 11pm. It’s been a chaotic week and a half of closing on the house, getting it ready to move into and moving. We were having the sewer line replaced…
This is my family. Me. Noah Sage. Andrea. Dommie Fur Pants. We fucking rock. We have our issues, just like any other family does. We also love each other fiercely…
I’m tired. No, exhausted. I should be in bed right now but I can’t bring myself to give in to my weighted eyelids. The yearning within me for solitude is…
Our family has recently enjoyed reading The Hunger Games together. I know…is reading The Hunger Games with an eight year old appropriate? I think that question should be answered on…
I think that, at the moment, he wants to be Katniss Everdeen when he grows up. A VERY generous, and VERY tiny friend of ours was purging her closets and…
He’s had it for a year. Obviously it has proven to be one of the better Christmas gifts I’ve ever given him. He wears it indoors and out, in waking…
Math lessons aren’t always worksheets at a desk or table. Neither is any other subject, to be honest. To learn is to live, and to live is to learn. We…
It’s less than a mile via a multi-use path to a Starbucks and a really great kids book store that also sells Playmobil. Using my “rickshaw” rope on the sled,…
