Every so often, I think I have this parenting thing figured out (ha, ha!) and then I have a day like today. Caroline started Track Camp yesterday and seemed to really love it. The girl could run all day long and has done really well in the two 5k races she’s run so track camp […]

I’ve been loving my summer reading list. So far I have read The Year We Left Home, The Weird Sisters and Life of Pi. All good and worth reading in different ways… Just the other day, my friend who I am reading with asked me why I wanted to create a list. We both read a […]

From… to… in only 8 years. As I always do in birthday posts, I become speechless because all I can find are cliches. Happy Birthday to my baby girl…

My mother met Ted in 1966. They were both married to other terrific people at the time. As couples, these four had wonderful fun together. Circumstances, though, brought them to different places. Time passed and their marriages ended. Ted remarried. More time passed and Ted’s second wife died. In January 2009, Ted called Mom. And finally, […]

Lauren Child’s version of the Princess and the Pea is absolutely, positively to die for… A few weeks ago, one of my favorite on-line people, Mariah Bruhel of Playful Learning, wrote about this book. I commented that I was not familiar with it and couldn’t wait to go read it. Mariah responded that the Princess […]

I have mentioned one of my favorite people/children’s authors here before- Meg Medina. If you didn’t check her out the last time I wrote about her, please check her out now. And then you’ll know why I had an author crush on Meg before she created an awesome summer reading list and you’ll be able […]

Where we’ve been…. Lucky, lucky us…