Saying Good Bye to our Pups

We said good-bye to our dogs over these past two weeks.  Thinking abstractly about what would happen if one of our pets were aggressive with kids or we had an allergy issue is so very different than going through the actions of “rehoming” your loved pets.  I have been largely quiet about Gabriel’s eczema since [...]

Thank You Notes

There is something about New Year’s that makes me thankful.  I think it’s that I always wrote my Christmas thank you notes about now. Do you write thank you notes?

My mom always insisted on thank you notes and as I child I hated them.  But something funny happened in my late twenties…I started to [...]

You Are My Sunshine

One of my favorite songs for the boys is You Are My Sunshine – well, the one verse that goes like this…”you are my sunshine, my only sunshine/ You make me happy when skies are gray/  You’ll never know dear how much I love you/ Please don’t take my sunshine away.”  (For the fuller, somewhat [...]

Baaa-nishing Eczema

“What kind of milk is that?” asked an elder woman peering into my Trader Joe’s cart earlier today.  Actually, the conversation started with her asking if I knew what the staff ringing the bell meant and if I shopped there often.  But it quickly turned to my milk.

“Goat.”  I replied.  “Goat Milk.”

She nodded [...]

Monkey See…

As a matter of instinct as well as reading parents’ magazines in doctors waiting rooms, I understand that the behavior I model will filter into what Dante and Gabriel do in very direct ways.

As noted here before, we have two dogs.  And periodically throughout the day they will do things that need to be [...]