Free School Supplies!

This information might be just a week or two too late, but I have found the best place to shop for school supplies. Not just cheap school supplies…FREE!!!

• Posted 1 day ago.

Lunch and Legacy

Last week, my mother called me with the sad news that my Aunt Vita (her real name was Veronica, but her older sisters shortened it, with their Italian accents, to Vita) passed away at 85. Aunt Vita was the last of five siblings born to my Italian immigrant great-grandparents. This picture is of her mother and her four siblings before she was born.

• Posted 1 week ago.

Into the Nightstand

For this week’s theme, I am willing to go where no blogger has gone so far. I’m going to give you a visual of the top drawer of my nightstand as viewed from the top of my unmade bed (really, I made the bed just moments after taking the picture)! I promise, this will be G-rated. No, really, I didn’t even have to remove anything to make it G-rated…sigh!  

• Posted 2 weeks ago.

Back-to-School...on a Budget!

Actually there are a few things I love about back-to-school. First of all, I love that my children go back to school! Secondly, my friend Patti has a first-day-of-school Mimosa Party at her house, the perfect end-of-summer reward for the harried Mom of teens who are either over-scheduled or constantly complaining of boredom.

• Posted 3 weeks ago.

Parenting 411 - A Case Study

To me, parenting is a lot like backing up your computer. It could just be because I took the time yesterday, for the first time in months, to do a full backup to my external hard drive. And I’m always looking for the confluence between what I do and what I am thinking. (The real definition of confluence is something about rivers coming together, but another usage is, “a coming together…

• Posted 4 weeks ago.

Brazelmond?

� Sometimes John Rosemond�just nails it in his column. From what I remember of my children’s toddlerhood, Rosemond was kind of the anti-Brazelton. While Rosemond focused on more traditional methods of parenting that most of us grew up with, Brazelton was more in vogue when my kids were little and focused on “flexible discipline boundaries” and “empathic involvement.”…

• Posted 1 mon. ago.

TMI

• Posted 1 mon. ago.

Ch-Ch-Changes

Ch-ch-Changes Turn and face the strain Ch-ch-Changes Don't tell them to grow up and out of it                                                 ~David Bowie

• Posted 1 mon. ago.

Wild Night and a New Road

Dying is a wild night and a new road. Emily Dickinson

• Posted 1 mon. ago.

Form, Form, Everywhere a Form

A couple of weeks ago, I declared this to be a Summer of recess, not excess. But you know what they say about the best laid plans... If you don't , it's a quote from a Robert Burns poem called To a Mouse on Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough, and it goes, 

• Posted 2 mon. ago.