Recently, a friend blessed me with a few tickets to see a show at the Adventure Theatre MTC in the Glen Echo Park in Maryland. What a treat it was! Normally, you couldn’t bribe me enough to make a drive around the Washington Beltway area, but my friend assured me that the show would be [...]

The most recent in our series of college road trips was made to Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I had never heard of the University or their mascot, the dragons, until Firstborn found the school in her search for a science and engineering school adequately distanced from her meddling parents’ house. I lived in a [...]

Quite by accident, Big Daddy Jeff has been convinced to attend the new church that I enjoy. We were at a school picnic over the summer when the mother of one of Miss Impervious’ classmates asked me where I attended church and I told her. “Isn’t that the one with the really good looking Pastor?” [...]

The small town where we live has very little in it, really. We have a convenience store for those late-night needs of the liquid sort, but that’s about it. We do not even have our own post office. We are sandwiched between other towns and fortunate enough to be located right beside Frederick, Maryland, recently [...]

Mondays are great! I know – many of you do not agree, but I happen to really, really like Mondays. On Mondays, my girls go back to school. For them, it is classroom peace and calm after hectic weekends full of family, friends, play dates, dance and pottery classes, and fun church. For me, it [...]

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 [...]

A couple of Saturdays ago, when Big Daddy was out getting into trouble at the Daddy-Daughter Dance with the little ones, Firstborn and I were on our way to dinner with Aunt Rachel. As we looked for a parallel parking space in downtown Frederick, an attractive slender woman in killer high boots ran down the [...]