“Mom! Stop it!” scolds Firstborn, and snaps me out of my proverbial reverie. “What?” I say, though I already know. It is her recurring complaint. “You’re acting like a bobble head doll again! Were you even listening to what I said?” Well, good grief and excuse me. My answer should be “Probably not”, but she [...]

Red is my favorite color. It is the color of passion and love and life-giving blood. It is intense, vibrant and confident. No one puts on yellow when they want to feel confident: nope, it’s red. Red indicates a certain kind of receptiveness in a woman: you can’t wear a red dress to a party [...]

This past Monday, as I sat with my friend waiting on our pizza while our girls were in dance class, I watched her non-dancing daughter working hard on a hand-made valentine. She carefully cut out the shape in both white and tissue paper, made a quote in a bubble in her best hand-writing (given that [...]

Big Daddy Jeff took the little ones to buy our first Christmas tree this year. (Lest you criticize us for using live trees, know that we recycle our Christmas trees ourselves.) Had Jeff gone by himself, I am sure that he would have returned with the perfect tree. Alas, he learned the lesson that I [...]

Yesterday afternoon, having loaded the Princess, Miss Sunshine and their friend Marlee into the back of the van, then making sure that they had belted themselves in before peeling rubber to make a sudden lucky break in traffic, I heard Marlee mention “There’s Sergia’s mom – she’s so pretty.” Liddie Biddie (my princess) and Miss [...]

My two youngest daughters, Miss Sunshine and Liddie Biddie, are kissers and huggers and just all-around body-space invaders of the highest sort. I’m always being talked to by teachers who think that they might be the one to get through to me. In kindergarten, it was the teacher calling to tell me that Miss Sunshine [...]

Our birthday season is over, and boy am I exhausted. There were all kinds of parties: the Little Princess had a home party with all of her friends (and then another with just family), Miss Sunshine had a home party with a couple of friends, one with family, and a big one at an outside [...]