Expand the Circle

When I was young, I was fairly confident that we had the most normal family ever.  Translation?  I thought we were average.  Oh, we had our fun, owned a family cabin, spent time together…but still, it wasn’t anything that seemed outrageous to me. But after I had moved out and gotten married, my parents divorced.  It wasn’t a surprise by then, and in fact was a long time coming once it actually happened.  Change,...

Mommy, what does S-E-X spell?

It’s funny how smart we can be sometimes.  I actually saw this coming, and just this week looked at some magazines on my kitchen table and thought…hmm. What was I looking at?  Well, we have a six year old.  A six year old who has become a very enthusiastic reader this year, and reads pretty much everything he can get his hands on.  Now, I’d never have anything inappropriate within reach, but I had happened to pick...

A flashback, and some perspective

The following was written last year, something I wrote in a giant vent of frustration and then never posted.  It began as a comment on someone else’s blog post but swiftly became far too long to leave as a comment, so I just wrote it out and tucked it away.  Obviously, it was a point of contention at the time and a struggle I was finally putting to rest.  If you read the article I wrote recently for the Yummy Mummy...

Spend Money and Time Wisely

“Sometimes I have more time than money… sometimes I have more money than time.” This little saying has saved my sanity on more than one occasion.  A busy family schedule with plenty of work, two young kids, and businesses to run doesn’t exactly lend itself to doing everything ourselves, every time.  And while I absolutely believe in DIY and elbow grease, let’s face it.  There are only so many hours in a day! So...

FDNY

I love to talk with my six year old son about places we’d like to go together.  Travel, exploring foreign countries, new cities, you name it.  Whatever the new locale may be, the sparkle in his eye as he asks questions and decides if the adventure sounds tempting enough is irresistible to me.  For various reasons, we have not travelled much with him yet, and I am looking forward to the opportunity to share trips with him...