I thought someone was being murdered, and was screaming for anyone who could to come help. Without shoes on, I rushed outside to listen and realized that it was not, in fact, someone near death, but was our neighbor’s new goat screaming once again...
It had been days of looking for bikes for the girls with no luck anywhere we searched. I never thought about how a pandemic could affect bike buying, but apparently, it really does. After multiple fruitless missions, and sad daughter faces, we...
Luck would have it that, now that I am at my heaviest, it is the time to order many things online. A cosmic joke, me searching and hoping things come in my size. But, I decided to bite the bullet, having already gone big AND gone home, so two weeks...
I don’t think my mom knew what she was getting into as she lowered herself into the hot tub with me and my three youngest girls the other day. Over the last year the hot tub has been more of a conference room than just bubbling, hot water. It’s...
I know the pictures ruins the mystery, but this story…I just have to tell it. Last night, when my husband Justin fell asleep in my daughter Paige’s room putting her to bed, my other two daughters, Chloe, Tessa and I piled into mine and turned...
In a whirlwind I planned the whole thing: We’d start off Spring Break with a short, local trip; One far enough to feel like we’d done something fun, but close enough to make it an easy trip by car. San Francisco seemed like the best choice. It is...
It had been a long week for me home alone. I was about to pick my husband up, as he had been gone away on a trip. The girls were all helpful when they tried to be, but sometimes it took a lot to truly feel the “help” in it. I’d wondered as he was...
I registered my two middle schoolers for high school this week. At least I hope I did. I cannot even believe that is upon us when, frankly, it feels like they just got their big teeth in. But they REALLY need to go back to school for all of our...
Multiple times this week I’ve heard it – Mom friends saying that they have failed in some way. Maybe they raised their voice, or lost their patience. Maybe they just couldn’t answer one more question in the car. A mom in crisis at an ailing...
Trying to match their rhythm when they reach the age to run “It all happened so fast.” That’s what I thought as my oldest daughter’s lips said that she had found her wedding dress. As she turned around to see the back of it in the mirror, and I saw...