Months have passed as I have waffled on what to do with this blog. I started out with high hopes of turning it and myself into a productivity expert – you know, one of those moms who has all the answers, who keeps it all together with an arsenal of secret tricks (because moms who [...]
I’m especially interested in all things art. My mother was an artist and my oldest child is soon to be a student at a top art school. And while I’m not an artist by trade, I have been surrounded by enough art in my lifetime to have developed something of an artist’s eye and can [...]
Back in January 1992, I was camped out on the couch, big and pregnant, on bedrest with dangerously high blood pressure and an attractive case of cankles. I worried non-stop for four solid weeks as I waited for that baby to be born – hoping she was ok, hoping I was ok, wondering how we’d [...]
is that she takes nice photos of her siblings…. Princess Caitlyn on the Couch
I just love it when I find Great Stuff on the internet. Back in May when I was first starting this blog, I hired a web designer to come up with a super-snazzy design. I thought for sure that a super-snazzy design would magically bring my mish-mash of ideas together. Turns out my vision for [...]
I have the amazing fortune to have an exceptionally gifted artist as a child. I get to call her a child for a few more weeks only because she will soon be 18. We spent most of today at a series of college portfolio reviews, and she received glowing reviews. The college rep from SAIC [...]
I attended a funeral yesterday, for a lady who spent 83 fabulous years on this planet. Listening to someone’s life being reviewed in a eulogy is a profound experience. While I knew her mostly as Grannie, this lady had a name. And each time her name was spoken in this eulogy, I jumped a little. [...]