Kids live here
I like to keep a clean and organized house. I also have a husband and two kids, a dog, a cat and a rabbit (although the rabbit is probably the neatest, cleanest creature in the house). I have alway...
View ArticleThe what-ifs
Monday was sunny and warm and T. and I used our hour of alone-time to lounge in the hammock on the back porch. She chattered to me about this and that and I decided, given our free time, that we would...
View ArticleThose Lundbys
My sister and I used to have a Lundby dollhouse, acquired sometime deep in the 1970s. We loved it and played with it constantly. I still remember the voyeuristic thrill of peering through the doll...
View ArticleSaved by the clock
A lot of people complain about Daylight Savings time; a lot of parents complain about it. I have never minded it so much. I don't mind setting the clocks back in the fall and feeling the anticipation...
View ArticleFood for thought
The other night I unwittingly created for my kids the "best dinner experience ever." Scott had a late meeting and wasn't going to be home until long past dinner, L. is still on Spring Break, and I had...
View ArticleBeing big
Saturday morning I walked into the kitchen just in time to see T. lugging an enormous and very full carton of Trader Joe's vanilla soy milk out of the refrigerator. She was staggering under the weight...
View ArticleSpinning wheels
Every Monday through Thursday, my cell phone alarm rings promptly at 4:30. This is L.'s "homework alarm" and, although I usually end up having to push the snooze button once or twice, the alarm system...
View ArticleHindsight (and red shirts)
About once a month or so I meet for coffee with a group of women from a parenting group. My husband and I are both closely involved with this group, but the coffee mornings seem to belong to the moms....
View ArticleCamp, anyone?
On our kitchen table at home is a pile of catalogs and summer events calendars. I've been collecting them for some weeks now, and I leaf through them while I'm sipping my coffee, or eating breakfast....
View ArticleLike a kid in a toy store
I don’t want to spend a post rattling off my resume, but throughout my career I’ve been pretty fortunate to work on some fairly cool projects. I’ve worked on Super Bowls, Rose Bowls, the World Cup and...
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