Happy birthday, Sweet Devon! I love you, angel baby!
Love,
Mai-Mai

August is killing me. No, I am not being a drama queen here, well maybe just a bit, but it’s so true. It’s so bad I can’t even go in to details. Not people are dying bad, but having no skin on the end of my fingers and rubbing salt on my nerve endings bad. [...]

Me to her: “I know you’re upset about the mess in the house. I am working right now, but later when Devon goes to his dad’s house I will have time to get some things cleaned up.”
She bows her head as though the weight of the earth is on her shoulders, sums up some words [...]

One of the aspects I don’t appreciate about motherhood is the Other Mothers. Some other moms are good eggs. But the Other Ones? Nuh uh. Those are the ones that when you realize that you and your child will be entwined with both the kid and the mother until high school graduation, you want to [...]

This morning I found myself at the end of string with nothing but madness attached to the other end. I am so dead-beat from a week of waking up at 5 a.m. every day to get Loren to the soccer field for his practices. While he runs his ass off, I walk the dogs because [...]

Last night I had the most amazing post rattling about in my head, or so it seemed at the time. I was poised and ready to write when Devon came shuffling into my office nook. I expected to feel him crawl up the back of my chair and then wrap himself around my neck and [...]

1. Yesterday I accomplished something I have been wanting to do for many years, I finished a particular bike ride. When all was said and done I think it amounted to something between 60 and 70 miles. I had a long conversation with my dad during the ride and we actually accomplished quite a bit [...]

It is not too often that I can crow about some domestic accomplishment. I don’t cook. I am not a stickler for dust bunnies. I am not militant about folding clothes. But yesterday I learned to do something that I have wanted to try for nearly 12 years. I learned to make jam. Yes ma’am, [...]

I don’t like almost three year-old children. There, I said it. It’s true I just don’t care for them. Sure, they’re super cute with their over sized heads and stumpy gaits. But they are a pain in the ass, make that persistent, stubborn, argumentative pains in the asses.
Now, I’m not naming in names here but [...]

Summer is always a long haul for me. Aside from that one summer where everything was golden (and even that one was hard -my grandfather died that summer and my brother spent yet another stint in rehab), I have found most of them to be grueling in one form or another. Last summer was hands [...]