My son wants attention. Just not from me. And it’s starting to hurt a little.
Almost every morning for the past year or more, my son has awoken from sleep and called for his mother. “Mommy!” He will shout this word for as long as…
Almost every morning for the past year or more, my son has awoken from sleep and called for his mother. “Mommy!” He will shout this word for as long as…
As I’ve made clear, I am an enormous fan of the “I told you so,” going to far as to have an “I told you do” calendar. What I would…
Someday, far into the future, there will be no children and no pets running around our home. I will be deeply saddened by this. Except on the mornings of Daylight…
Listening to my son sing The Clean Up Song is great. I have no idea where he learned it, but hearing him sing it is incredibly cute. I’m just hoping…
In an effort to hold myself accountable, I post a list my New Year’s resolutions at the beginning of each month, along with their progress (or lack thereof). With two…
Halloween is one of the few holidays that has changed completely depending on how old I am. As a child, I donned a Halloween costume and went trick-or-treating, hoping to…
In my experience, this may be true, but it doesn’t mean that you are safe. Fools and extremists may attempt to destroy you anyway.
The Center for Responsive Politics estimates that nearly $4 billion will be spent on television advertising for the 2014 midterm elections, up from $3.6 billion in 2010. My question: Who…
One of our routines at the dinner table is to talk about the best part of each one of our days. Charlie is only two years-old and doesn’t quite get…
Author Shelli Johnson posted a list entitled 10 Things I Wish I’d Known When I Was 20. As such, I was inspired to write my own list. Unlike Johnson, who…