Live and Let Di

I vividly remember when my kids were little ... Rory on my hip and Haley holding my hand. I would have a diaper bag slung over my shoulder. It was then that I learned that my husband, a man of few words, said THE LONGEST good-byes ever recorded! He would say, "Let's go," and within seconds, there I would be, laden down with a diaper bag and two babies while he would be saying good-bye to people he…

Posted 1 week ago.

Breaking The Box

Now that I have voted and the new School Board is in session, I have a few little "issues:"

Posted 2 weeks ago.

The Village Strikes Again

I've always said, "It takes a village to raise a child." Well, at least since Hillary said it. But in my 16 years of parenthood, I certainly have availed myself of that village many a time.

Posted 3 weeks ago.

Book It!

Everyone keeps laughing at me when I say that I have made a New Year's Resolution ... to read more. Because everyone thinks I read constantly. I generally do, but last year my total number of books read was appallingly short. What could it be? Facebook? FarmVille? Too much computer in general. Oh, the fact that I actually took on a job last year?

Posted 1 mon. ago.

Gingerbread Parenting

Every year, when the holidays come around, our parenting strategies are tested. Should we get the high-tech, high-pricetag gift? How do we deal with doubts about Santa? How do we find time to just be together as a family rather than running hither and yon to catch the last must-buy gift?

Posted 1 mon. ago.

Have Yourself a Simple Little Christmas

A few weeks ago, we Mom2Mom bloggers contributed to an article about how to keep Christmas simpler and less stressful. Under my own stress at the time, I submitted mine late and didn't make the article. But that's OK, because my story deserves its own blog.

Posted 1 mon. ago.

Mother's Little Helper

The words of the Rolling Stones, written a full four decades ago, ring amazingly true today:

Posted 1 mon. ago.

The Gift of Site(s)!

Tonight at dinner, we sketched out a plan for the time between December 19 (a can't miss party at our friends' house) and December ... well, we don't really know, but probably a few days after Christmas, when we will be returning from Florida where most of our extended family lives.

Posted 2 mon. ago.

The most wonderful time of the year?

Joy to the world! Just hear those sleigh bells ringling! Rockin' around the Christmas tree!

Posted 2 mon. ago.

about this blog

Live and Let Di

Diane is a TriangleMom2Mom featured blogger, appearing every Wednesday.

I try to be the voice of Moms with teens. My daughter Haley is 16. She's at that age where she is convinced that I know nothing. I'm thinking I'll seem a lot smarter when she's 22. We bond over Broadway shows. My son Rory is 13. He started reading the sports page when he was 5 and his passion for anything sports-related has grown ever since. This year he beat out 9 guys in their 40s to win his Fantasy Football League. Watch for him on ESPN in a few years.

My husband Hurley works from home, but travels quite a bit. When he's gone, I usually take a break from making dinner and cleaning the house. Oh, I don't do those things regularly when he's here either! Our parenting philosophy is "choose your battles." The only problem is that we often choose different battles. It keeps it interesting!!!

Diane appears Wednesdays on TriangleMom2Mom. Read more about Diane on her blog Live and Let Di.