I’d like to think that I am a pretty even tempered person, but something has been amiss lately. Maybe you could blame my outbursts on my raging hormones. Or maybe you could say that any patience I have is being depleted by my children. Whatever the case may be, my husband often returns home from [...]
Category Archives: I'm not totally kidding
I Believe I Can Fly
I have a scar on my left knee. It is not as noticeable as it used to be, but it is still there.
I’m not even sure when it happened anymore, but I do remember how it came to be.
I was what I like to call an “imaginative” child. I believed in many things passionately: [...]
Favorite Places
Background: This post was written in response to Gwen Bell’s, The Best of 2009 Blog Challenge….because who doesn’t want to be challenged on a Friday?
I’ve been thinking about how I would respond to this writing prompt for a long time, which for me translates to anything beyond 4 minutes.
After a while, my brain started [...]
Fun With Play Doh
I should be vacuuming my house right now.
It’s what I do.
I vacuum.
Every morning, I walk into our laundry room and pull out the Dyson. I used to delight in its cheery yellow color. I imagined that I looked like June Cleaver while doing housework, only less clean, swearing under my breath, and without a half [...]
Growing Up Fast
I’m not exactly sure at what age I stopped being a kid, and started to act like a girl. Was I eight? Maybe twelve?
I do remember all of the important “firsts” from my past, like the first time I shaved my legs.
Honestly, I should have been warned. By a friend. Whose name starts with K [...]
Reliving The Dream
Children are good for many things. They love you unconditionally, they bring joy and laughter to the home, and they often put things in perspective. Emi allows me to be young again and do all the things I did as a child. We go to amusement parks, watch cartoons, visit the zoo, and eat a [...]
Becoming Tavi Gevinson
What started out as an awareness of shoes, jewelry, and jean jackets back in the ‘80s has progressed to a full-fledged passion for fashion as I have gotten older. And if there is anyone to blame for my weakness when it comes to the perfect boot or bag, it is without a doubt my darling [...]
Kacey: Mom to Emi, lover of good design and original style, educator to tomorrow's world leaders, rejected the first gift that Francesca ever gave her at age 5.
Francesca: Mom to Giancarlo and Lucia, lover of good food, red wine, and all that is celebrity news, still envious of Kacey's Swatch watch collection from junior high.
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