It was bound to happen. He's so close to being five. Certainly other kids have done it earlier. We were visiting my parents at their homestead in Albion where dinner is lovingly prepared with whatever…
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40ish-year-old mom to a 13-year-old and rescued basset hounds. I am not married but the guy I live with and I are super serious. Except when we're making fart jokes and then the 13-year-old rolls her eyes and shakes her head. I am from NorCal. I live in the house I grew up in. I bake when I am nervous and I like to grow things in my front yard to nibble on and season dinner with.
Today we had a difference of opinion. We had to leave where we were because he was being disruptive and I did not feel like dragging the spectators through the negotiations. In the car I…
Holidays. As a kid I don't remember Easter being such a big deal. Maybe it's because all I had to do was wake up in the morning and all that was required was I find…
A minute ago I was anxiously taking pregnancy tests, hoping. Now my son is nearly five. People told me that would happen. Of course I had heard it all before. But a lot of that…
She had been a ballerina. She played the violin. She was a painter. A sculptor. More things to more people than I can possibly mention here. She had a way of embellishing the mundane with…
To live. Sounds easy enough in practice. Wake up. Eat. Work. Play. Love yourself. Love people around you. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. "My parents told me if I went to college, got married and had kids,…