30 Days Has November

Every time I have a conference with my older son’s teacher, we spend 15 minutes skirting around words like ‘challenge’ and ‘motivate’. What it takes me a quarter of an hour to illustrate by saying things like, “Yes, he is a bright boy but as his pushy mother I know he can do a lot…

100 Shades of Me

If you have grade school kids you may be familiar with 100th day of school celebrations.  Students are invited to bring in 100 of some ‘thing‘ and they happily spend the day gluing 100 pieces of Ziti or 100 Cheerios onto a big poster board.  Like so many other child and school related scenarios, it…

Game of Blogs

When I started Wine and Cheese (Doodles) last year, the original intent was to document a journey of rediscovery.  Nothing too ornate or complex, mind you, just a rediscovery of my newly bought and paid for free time. With both boys finally in school full-time and a stretch of cleared calendar ahead of me, I…