Usually if Devon skips a nap on one day he is more than happy to snuggle in and sleep the next afternoon. Today when I tucked him into his crib I was absolutely sure he would nap. So when I still heard him whispering and singing an hour later I knew the gig was up, [...]

During the ski season I often congratulated Devon over the fact that he was extremely blase about the fact that all day I cater to small people who are not him. When we are at the nursery I make it clear that although I love him, I am not overly available to him between the [...]

Okay, because our weekend? Truly cool. On Saturday we had a super soccer day where Cass scored a whopping three goals in her pre-birthday game. She got so fired up by the competition, as tends to happen with her, that I could hear her yelling when the other team had the ball. Upon kick-off she [...]

Yesterday marked 10 months since we lost my father. Last summer, in the direct aftermath of his death, I told myself that I could not imagine anything worse than the gut wrenching nausea that followed his sudden death. I thought the grief would abate and I would begin to feel normal, sort of like a [...]

Tomorrow is the party for Cassidy’s 10th birthday party. Her real birthday is on Sunday, but we are celebrating it tomorrow because that is the only time slot I could conceive of where I wouldn’t have to host a huge sleepover or pay huge amounts of money for a clown rental. Tomorrow afternoon we will [...]

Today was host to yet another breakdown. I had to get a new copy of my divorce decree (I lost the original in the move this summer) which meant a trip to the courthouse. I had not been there since we went to clean out my father’s chambers in July. I didn’t handle the trip [...]

Oh dear. Yes. That’s right. Oh. Dear. Tonight was the end of season party for our department of the ski company. I work with a particularly jovial, if not slightly alcoholic, crowd and so the promise of free booze, ribs and cake was enough to bring every single employee out. Our department numbers at [...]

The last few weeks have made me wonder why it was that I ever felt so brash as to stop taking my anti-anxiety medications. I obviously have no business to be walking around and attempting to parent three kids when I am butt ass sober of any sort of pharmaceutical assistance.
Last night found Loren [...]

Holy hell, I realize that is a very bad thing to mutter or yell during the Holiest of Holy Weeks, but there is truly just so much drama a fragile mama can withstand. And today I think I met that quota head on and then snuggled up to it and gave it just wee bit [...]

On Saturday I spent a little over four hours sitting in the Cosmic Hairdresser’s chair while she stripped color and then proceeded to whack off a majority of my hair while chatting on about the precarious balance of the universe. I was a bit unnerved when she finally proclaimed my hair complete; my initial thought [...]