Today, boys and girls, we take a brief time out from normal blogging for a little lesson in punctuation. Today, I’m going to educate you about the underutilized mark known as the em dash. Never to be confused with the lowly hyphen. Folks, way too many people out there are using a hyphen or two […]

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In our household, that bodily organ known to the rest of the English speaking world as the brain, will forevermore be referred to as the "thinking thingy." Someone’s "thinking thingy" apparently malfunctioned and could not retrieve its own identity, but the "thinking thingy’s" owner (a certain eight-year-old who shall remain nameless, to protect the guilty) […]

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The velvet door rope might have been the first indication that this was no ordinary birthday party. The bouncer checking names against the VIP list before granting entry was likely the second clue. This celebration, after all, was an important affair, held in honor of the fact that Maia has reached the ripe old age […]

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Why do so many people always want to find the reasons why you can’t do something instead of looking for ways that you can? ********** How in the world am I supposed to get a post-tonsillectomy three-year-old to drink 40 ounces of fluid per day? He doesn’t even drink that much when he’s well. ********** […]

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"Ahzaba yada Ducky," He slurred unintelligibly, as he gazed happily at me from la-la land with the sloppy grin of a falling down drunk. There was no question about it. My three-year-old son was the new poster child for what it means to be feeling no pain. But wait, it’s not what you think! As […]

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This past week, Maia was on fall break from school, so we took advantage of the opportunity for a little family vacation. It is no secret in my family that housekeeping is not exactly my forte, but prior to our departure on Monday, I did the unthinkable. I actually straightened up around the house. I […]

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