20 Surprising Things About Having Boys 1. You will know and respect the difference between a backhoe and a front loader. 2. You will start to think “Mom” tattoos aren’t so bad after all. 3. You will compare them to animals as in, “I need to take them outside and run them like dogs.” 4….
Tag: childhood
Growing Up is Hard to Do
Remember when you were young and the clock seemed to snail walk around the hours of a school day? How about the way time seemed to stretch and elongate when you were waiting for a birthday or Christmas morning to come around? Do you remember the explosive breath of freedom upon stepping out into the first rays…
Mixed Tapes and Other Things My Kids Will Never Know
Buried in a box in the cupboard, under notes and letters and other written breadcrumbs of our early relationship, is a mixed tape. I made it for my husband way back when. In those early butterfly days, I was striving to impress him more than anything else, but there is still a significance to each song,…
Goodnight Nobody, Goodnight Mush
If you asked people in the know to describe me, the list would be over represented with synonyms of “efficient”. I like to think there would be a ‘clever’ or a ‘witty’ thrown in here and there, maybe a ‘thoughtful’ or ‘insightful’, but you would almost certainly not find the word ‘sentimental’. Yet though my husband sometimes describes…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 