Day 3 – Silence The Clones spent the weekend with their MiMi. They had not been home since Friday evening. The silence in my home was so amazing. I can’t remember the last time our house was this quiet. It was quite a change to the normal deafening sounds of a house with two 8…
30 Days Grateful – Day 2
Day 2 – Friendship *Sorry for getting this in late. I was a little busy yesterday 🙂 hence today’s title* Friendships are like fine wine – they older they get, they better they are. Yesterday I had the privilege of being our some real, good, true friends. The kind that can see you at your…
30 Days Grateful – Day 1
Day 1 – Children As I have said before I am a mom to three wonderful guys, The Sophomore, Superman and Batman. They are three of the reasons I get up everyday. Children have a way of making it all seem ok. They have an uncanny way of knowing when something is wrong, without knowing…
A little late…..
Ok, so Luvvie over at Awesomely Luvvie posted about how she was gonna post on her blog EVERYDAY for the month of August. EVERYDAY. I have a hard enough time coming up with something to write about once a month. So I was thinking about doing it, to get better about writing something here and…
Not In My Cards
I am a mother. Been one for 19 years now. It has been an amazing adventure thus far, but sometimes, there’s this nagging…..this longing I can’t quite put my finger on. And then it hits me. Sometimes like a brick, other times like a warm sensation. I do not have a daughter. And I never…
Late Night Thoughts
You are always a virgin because its always your first time with someone new. If prison sex isn’t real sex, what is it? Isn’t non-alcoholic wine grape juice? What is the point of sugar free chocolate? Decaf coffee, or brown water as I like to call it, should never be an option. I am not…
What do you play?
In this very digital age, games are quickly becoming less cardboard box and more xBox. Most of the games we played as children, either at a table or on the floor, can now be found on almost every handheld device or home gaming console. Monopoly, scrabble, chess, checkers, spades – all games that used to…
A Dream Deferred?
I keep seeing some ex-NFL guy hawking his new show – The Moment – and it got me to thinking….What is my dream job? Well, much to my chagrin, I came up empty. I could not think of ONE thing I really, really, REALLY wanted to do and hadn’t because life happened. It kind of…