I’ve been trying to write every week, every other if I can’t muster weekly so two Mondays ago was my deadline…but… On that particular Monday I got home at 2:30 am and into bed at 3:30 so…needless to say, it didn’t go as planned. What was I doing until all hours of the night on […]

Some say it calls for iron. Others say it calls for sweets. I say it calls for a night on the town (and some really, really good eats – I’m sorry, I couldn’t resist the rhyme). This weekend, The Chief and I celebrated six years of marriage. Six?! How is that even possible? It feels […]

This weekend, I was dead tired. So we headed to the Fair for some R&R. Just kidding. I was dead tired but I wasn’t delusional enough to expect R&R from the fair. I also didn’t expect a cheerleader. While unloading our family and the miscellaneous odds and ends we might need throughout the day (ear […]

Today marks the end of what I will always remember as the Solo Parenting Summer of 2025. In case I haven’t told you in person (which, if I know you, I have because I needed you to understand why I felt and acted like a zombie every time we interacted), this summer was a struggle. […]

Every morning lately (and sometimes, in the middle of the night, when Ollie decides morning isn’t fast approaching enough) I’ve tried to remember to say something to myself: “Today, something amazing will happen.” When jostled from a deep sleep to screams of “Mama!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” at 3 am are your reality, or life has lifted you up...