Every parent I know does this at least a few times a year. Cleaning out the closets to get rid of those clothes our kids have outgrown in order to make room for new clothes. Back to school time will be here before you know it and I have already gotten a jump on it! […]
I am a theatre geek (note the -re instead of -er). I love musical theatre and always have. There is no money in theatre. people do it for the love of it. My parents both came from a theatre background and I was lucky to be exposed to Broadway musicals from a very early age. […]
Getting in the water seems like the easiest thing in the world. But not always. For three years now my eleven year old daughter Emily has been on a swim team. That makes me a swim mom. I shlep her to and from practices four times a week, get up early and take her to swim […]
Becoming a mom again at 47 is no easy feat. No, no, I don’t mean a baby this time. I can’t even begin to imagine having energy for that! More power to the mamas that can! I’m talking about a puppy!! After we lost Watson, I wasn’t sure I could open my heart again to […]
My family and I recently took a much-needed vacation to a nice hotel on a beach and committed to one of those timeshare pitches they say will only be an hour (which really turns into 3). Why? Well, they threw a bunch of perks at us and it was hard to say no! We all […]
How do you maneuver friendships? It makes it sound like we are soldiers in war. Well, at times it may feel like that! There are lots of different kinds of friendships that we experience in life. There are those rare friendships that you have from childhood — they may seem to come and go over the […]
Sometimes I hear Emily and her friends talk about how some teachers have attitude when they speak to them, or how rude they are. It makes me wonder: Are we doing a disservice to our kids? We teach our kids to treat everyone the way we want to be treated, but I wonder if […]
How do you feel about camping? Personally, I’m not a camper. It isn’t that I can’t do it. I just prefer not to. I do like s’mores though, so when Emily’s Girl Scout troop (all four of them) proposed this mother-daughter camping trip, I was apprehensive but agreed. The other moms promised me it would […]
How do you find your passion? It’s amazing what inspires people to do what they do. Sometimes it’s traveling to other countries, or experiencing something new, or hearing someone speak. But when that spark ignites, you just want to make a difference in the world — TODAY! The key is not to wait. Don’t wait […]
As a mom of two girls, I hear a lot of talk on the playground about who the mean girls are and who is bossy. I’ve even used the word to describe my daughters at times — then I changed it up and said they were using a “bossy voice.” But I am learning every […]
