Las Vegas Road Trip
My feelings about this town can be summed up with the fact that I'm most happy when I can see it in my rearview mirror. A go-go dancer in a micro-micro bikini doing her dance is right in front of me and not 10 feet away, a giant plastic SpongeBob Squarepants advertises the “SpongeBob in 4-D” ride; you know, for the kids...
Read More...The Last Day and the Fake Moustaches
Husband and I have our own coping method which involves going to the very farthest booth away from the action and trying to stay above the fray...
Read More...Of Bridal Showers, School-Year's End & Job Preservation
I sat in the old friend section and cringed as our group spilled drinks and got a little too loud...
June has proven to be a busy month. In Charlie’s head, summer vacation started about two weeks ago...
Such a bad idea, one wonders who's gotten ahold of him to put these ideas in his head or if he's come up with this all by himself... Read More...
Bragging: Updated
It's so obnoxious when parents go on and on about their child's latest accomplishments. No one wants to hear it, with the exception of close friends and relatives (well, really not even they, Husband reminds me).
You may know that this has been Charlie's first year at the impossible-to-get-into charter "academy" and we were crossing our fingers that the year would go well for him; the anxiety we went through at the beginning of the year and just before, the uncertainty about pulling him away from his old friends and his comfort zone... Read More...
Behind the Story: Down Went The Spoon
Down Went The Spoon is an imaginative look at childhood from the
perspective of a little one who's growing and discovering that
gravity is often working against her. Oh, and the little one who
inspired this story? She’lll be beginning college in the fall. We
wish her well. My, how time flies...
Looking “Up”
We see the couple starting off as newlyweds and watched them age before our eyes. I thought of my own marriage and growing old with Husband...
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