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,…
“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…
Milestones are weird. The culmination of years, tiny steps and near misses, all come together in one day. A ceremony celebrating a right of passage or an achievement. Katlyn graduated from Xavier College Prep today. Four years of homework and tests, crazy schedules and days when she just didn’t want to get out of bed.…
Fun. So important to have and often hard to find as adults, unless shots of Tequila are involved. My sides hurt by the time I dropped my son off at school this morning. He has mastered fun. Granted he’s only 15, so there’s not a whole lot to worry about, but he is a fun…
I must have four full bottles of Spray n Wash, the refill size. I’m on this crazy cleaning spree lately and part of my assault includes the cabinet in my laundry room. Everything came out, cabinet wiped clean and everything went back. Holy crap, I have a lot of Spray n Wash. How did that happen?…
A military helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan and our country lost valuable, precious, incredibly brave lives. The stock market continues to approach the drain and I’m not quite sure any of the suits walking around Washington know what they’re doing. As important as these issues are, and believe me they are important, my daughter…
Today’s Father’s Day and our home is minus a father. Michael had an emergency at work and has been at it all day. Not a very fun time, but the damn email server has to be fixed and running by Monday morning. I just spoke to him and while he’s tired, he sounded almost excited.…
This is an old post, my daughter now drives, but it was sitting in drafts. I could not bear to put this memory in the trash, so here it is: My daughter is on the crew team at her high school. She has practice Monday-Thursday for 2 1/2 hours and her practice is about one…