My kids and I love to bake cookies.  We spend more on Toll House semi chocolate chips than is healthy or appropriate by any stretch of the imagination.  I freely confess.  The only redeeming thing about our “cookie habit” is that we give most of them away.
The kids help bake the cookies and then hand deliver them to [...]

1.  I have put pretzels up my nose.  Just to see what it would feel like.  Since I have been an adult.
2.  I walked two blocks in urine soaked pants while pregnant with my third child. Indignant and angry that I had apparently just become incontinent.  Daring someone to ask “Excuse me..Did you pee your pants?”  Strangely enough, [...]

This is the season of weddings and new beginnings.  Hopefullness and optimism abound.  Especially with those who are on the cusp of marriage and babies.  It is such an exciting time.
Let’s be honest though.  More than a few of us feel a little tired and jaded.  We have been wading in marital bliss for long enough [...]

This weekend I will don a bathing suit.  I will pretty much live in one until October rolls around. I will laugh and play and not worry about what anyone thinks of my body.  This is new territory for a recovering body hater. 
How in the world did this happen?   I stopped beating myself up for something that did not matter, [...]

I am by no means a fashionista.  Anyone who wears gym cothes as much as I do really shouldn’t be allowed to weigh in on current fashion discussions. But this is America.  We don’t have to know what we are talking about.  We just have to be loud. 
Here are few trends I would like to [...]

 We are nerds. 
This was a shock to me. It’s not like I thought we were cool people.  I’m not delirious.  I just didn’t realize the depth of our nerdiness until the husband pointed it out.  I listen to National Public Radio for an inappropriate amount of my day. My kids think it’s a treat to stay up [...]

I have a drawer full of letters that have yet to be read.  Plain white envelopes with phrases carefully written on the outsides.  There is quite a stack, always growing. More than I ever intended for there to be, frankly. Chances are they will never be read.  Those that do get to the intended recipients will be discussed, but [...]

If you live enough years on this earth, in all likely hood you will accumulate some tragic fashions.  Items bought in good faith.  In the hopes of looking and or feeling beautiful.  Once home, however, the ugliness of the shame you have carted home from the store is almost overwhelming.  Here are a few of [...]

1. She cuts your peanut butter sandwich with an axe.
2.  She walks out the door with a shotgun to “Get Breakfast”.
3.  The local grocery store has her picture pasted to the cash register with the words “DO NOT ENGAGE CONVERSATION WITH THIS WOMAN!”
4.  She was up all night sharpening the forks.
5.  She built a bonfire in the [...]

I couldn’t hardly sleep last night for dreaming about my dear friend Brook.  She is the first best friend I can remember and somehow through all these years we still get a kick out of each other. Which can only be summed up as a God thing.
I think what got me started down the road to [...]