Tonight Cassidy and I were walking hand in hand through Lowe’s while I searched for some suitable window coverings for my classroom. I hate Lowe’s, it overwhelms the hell out of me and I avoid if at all possible so to have Cass along for conversation was a good thing. She was pattering on about [...]

Today Loren and Cassidy started back to school and I began my new job at a new school. We aren’t a household to boast about our coolness with transitions. Although the three of us reported back with good days, the upheaval of ending the easy glide of summer break and jumping back into the order [...]

I  had one of the bests posts ever planned for this evening, it outline in excruciating detail my journey over the last seven weeks of living without wheat or gluten. Seriously good shit here. And after that I planned to watch a chick flick on my laptop before turning in for the night. But then [...]

When Loren was almost eleven he came to me one day and gravely said, “Mom, I know you’re the Easter Bunny. I also know you’re Santa Clause and the Tooth Fairy.” He paused here and I awaited what I thought might be accusations about betrayal. Instead he wrapped me in a hug and exclaimed, “Thank [...]

Good god, sometimes being a female is entirely too much work. Why, after 38+ years of this am I not catching on, I just don’t know. But it continues to get me time and again. Today I woke up all in a bind because I actually had to move my ass in order to get [...]

Little Miss to me as she gets in the car after school: “Hey, Mom! How are you? How was your day? What did you do today?”
I am immediately suspicious. I love her to pieces and I know she loves me…but. Usually when she gets in the car her nose is buried in a book and [...]

As heard by my mother who happened to sit in the opposing team’s bleachers this afternoon at Cassidy’s soccer game:
Soccer mom A: “Hmmm. That little red head is pretty good.”
Soccer mom B: “Yep. Watch out for the red head, number 2. She’s fast.”
Soccer dad A: “Sure thing, number two is tricky.”
Soccer mom A: “Hey! The [...]

Some days are sprinkled with a few turds here and there, just when you think you are in the clear, you look down only to find a new one squished in your toes. My last few days have been littered with shit mines. For a few hours all will be well and then it seems [...]