Parenting. It’s like a really long orientation period for a pretty important job. The parent is the seasoned employee, the one that knows how things work and has been around for a while. The child is the newbie, the one that just came on the scene and presumably knows nothing. Similar to a new job,…
Maggie needed three Book Sox (visual aid above). Material book covers in fancy colors, some of them have photo pockets and new this year…scratch and sniff cloth book covers. Someone like me sees that and thinks, “Won’t that get all dirty and nasty if people are always scratching it?” Anyway, I went to Office Max…
“I would hate to be a lucky penny on the street today.” ~Maggie Ewens She has a way of looking at the world, outside of herself, questioning and really seeing things. It’s hot. We live in Arizona and it’s July…it’s hot and it doesn’t matter if it’s a dry heat at this point. Arizona is…
A laundry mat is really not the place to make life decisions, but sometimes they work out. When Michael and I first started living together we rented this one and a half room place with concrete floors, before they were trendy, and a living room that barely had enough room for a futon (wow, remember…
Tradition. I like tradition, not in a weird conservative, never change even though something is based in ignorance or hurtful to others, but real tradition. Happenings, ceremonies or routines that bond friends, a family, a culture, even a country. I think that’s important. Tradition has recently put a bad taste in some people’s mouths because,…
It’s graduation week. Katlyn will graduate from high school on Saturday, but before the actual ceremony, we attended a Baccalaureate Mass last night. She goes to a Catholic High School. We’re not Catholic, so it makes for some interesting events and conversation. After I got past Michael commenting that the lead up to communion took…
I am possibly the most non-photogenic person on the planet. I’m the one that jacks up the group picture by closing my eyes or flashing the psycho smile. When we review photographs from vacations or the dreaded Christmas picture, it’s not uncommon to hear laughs and a few “Oooh, what happened there?” or “Mom, that…
One of the great challenges while raising children is helping them become adults without making mini versions of ourselves. I don’t want my children to be like me. I want them to learn from me and hopefully they’ve listened to some of my less than brief ramblings, but what I want most for them, aside…