She has always been my high-spirited child. And, yes. That has always been our more politically-correct way of saying she’s all fire and ice. From the moment she came into this world, she made her presence known. With a vengeance. She was the tiny little bundle that screamed, almost non-stop, for the first four months…
I blame it on my math minor. But the fact is, in my day job, I’m a person that lives by numbers, formulas, and stone cold logic. I like it when things add up. Life makes sense that way. When I come home, though? Sometimes, that’s a different story altogether. As much as I love…
I can’t believe I missed it. The bloggy event of the year. I’ve been so busy lately, I forgot to enter Taming Insanity’s Antler Up competition. I’m so bummed about this, for several reasons: Besides the prestigious glory of being crowned Antler Queen 2011, the winner also was guaranteed a Starbuck’s gift card. And with…
The Irony: Last week, I was thinking to myself, “I need to take the kids in for their flu shots.” It had been on my to-do list since earlier in the fall, along with a lot of other items. But I put it off (like most of the other items on my to-do list), and…
When we got married twelve years ago, we received some interesting wedding gifts. A dust buster, slightly used. A set of gaudy, crystal and gold frames that looked straight out of the Liberace museum. An Amway coupon. And then there was the person that gave us the bird. No, not figuratively. Literally. Meet “The Bird”….
