Sometimes as I peck away on my keyboard I wonder why I do this silliness week after week. Am I actually like those reality TV whores who eat spiders for money or allow cameras in to their bathrooms? I like to think not. I do this because it is therapeutic and even though I bitch [...]

Many mornings I will awaken feeling as though getting up to rear my kids is absolutely the last thing in the world I want to do, but I will also get up with a small corner of my being shrieking with a new idea or intention. I like to think of these voices of avenues [...]

When do we lose the ability to so joyfully dig a big one out of our noses and feel completely at peace about it? This is one of my favorite things about Devon’s age right now. If he feels like taking off his pants, he does it. If he lets one rip, he giggles. It [...]

I am quickly realizing that working at the preschool has many benefits, they are not at all financial because lord knows that is definitely not even an option in nearly any teaching profession. Everyday I am hugged by each and every one of my clients, they adore me and tell me so often. Not something [...]

We are on a bit of a reform kick here at the Manor. I spent about half of 2006 and most of 2007 in bed grieving for my dad’s death, then last year was the process of digging out and learning to breathe the air everybody else has to breathe. Now this year I am [...]

Lately I have been receiving more feedback than usual about my blog, the usual being next to nothing. Mostly this is due to the fact that after a little over three years of this silliness I am easing out of the closet in terms of my blogginess. The Library Ladies officially prompted this move but [...]

There are a few women I know with whom I share a similar child birth pattern, a least concerning the oldest of my children. We were the ones who were among the first of our peers to have kids, not the first to get pregnant but definitely the first to keep the babies and attempt [...]

This morning the day was off to a smashing start: my blog was featured in the blog buzz section of iVillage, I got all the bottles and cans to the recycling center, I had time for an amazing workout, more firemen came to the school. It was all good and I predicted a fabulous forecast [...]

My new job is kicking me around something fierce. Don’t get me wrong, I love it. And all the reasons why are another post all together, but the hours are fierce. Considering I spent the last two years either in bed grieving or meandering about the Manor grounds, the transition into actually working 5 days [...]

This afternoon I got an email from the ever gracious Jenifer of Not Calm dot Com and Blogher who informed me that my wee blog will be featured in the Buzz section of iVillage on Thursday morning. My initial reaction was all, “Hmmmm, sounds cool, but what is iVillage?” My paths on the internet are [...]