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 [...]

13 Cupholders and other Minivan amenities

If you have been reading along you know that we recently added Gabriel to the family and he is now just over two months old.  In that time we have done a fair bit of driving.  The four of us.  And just the four of us because that is all we could fit in the [...]

Granola or Rude?: Kid’s Parties

Here begins an occasional series I am going to call “Granola or Rude?”

My wacky left of center self sees the materialism of society as rooted in marketing…not what we need or even want.  I want to pass on to my kids that things are of limited value and that experience, time, and personal connections [...]

What’s on Your Plate?

What do all women think about soon after childbirth?  Food.  And how much less of it we can eat now that we are only supporting one life and aren’t drowning the sorrows of swollen ankles and achy backs in pints of ice cream and extra helpings of pasta.  Or is that just me?

In the [...]