Crazy Is My Life

Bond Park

Looking for a place where the kids can run around and burn off some energy?Â Â Fred G. Bond Metro Park in Cary is just the place. Â Take a walk or bicycle ride along the shady, winding trails. Or, if youâre more ambitious, take a run along the fitness trail, with different stops along the way to get your heart pumping. Â

Posted 2 mon. ago.

More Than Words

What do you say after twenty years of marriage? Sometimes, when my husband and I are in our bedroom, each busy at work on our laptops, I wonder if weâve lost the "magic" as we sit contentedly, but silently, together.

Posted 2 mon. ago.

Alive, But Not Well

"Is she dead yet?" well meaning friends ask me. Okay, they don't really say it quite that way. What they're more likely to say is: "How is your mother?" But I understand.

Posted 2 mon. ago.

Failure Is an Option

As the teachers (bless their hardworking hearts) delve into their school year focusing on teaching the three Râs, thereâs one lesson the schools and probably many of us parents donât teach our childrenâat least not intentionally, but should:Â how to fail. Gene Kranz, lead flight director of Mission Control for Apollo 13 uttered those famous words, âFailure is not an opt…

Posted 2 mon. ago.

I Know What I Did Last Summer

It's here; the official end of summer.Â WRAL's meteorologist Greg Fishel might argue, but for me, this first day of traditional school marks my official end of summer. No more sleeping in the basement every night for my boys.Â No more spontaneous trips to the Cary Tennis Park tennis courts at 7 p.m. on a Wednesday.Â No more sleeping in.Â Ouch.

Posted 2 mon. ago.

It's All About Sarah!

As you may know, our fearless leader and editor of Mom2Mom, Sarah Lindenfeld, is gloriously pregnant with her second baby.Â Sheâs passing through the heat of August right now, thinking how much better it would be to live in Alaska instead of in Raleigh. Ahh.Â The second child.Â With the first, you often wonder who exactly said it was OK for you to roll out of the hospital with a baby…

Posted 3 mon. ago.

Technology to Keep You Young

Are you old?Â Iâm sorry, that was rude.Â What I meant was â do you ACT old?Â There.Â That was so much better, wasnât it? Hereâs a clue:Â When you call someone and she doesnât answer, do you leave a message on the answering machine?Â Yup.Â You act old.

Posted 3 mon. ago.

Les Great Miserables Book Club

I love my kids. Hereâs proof: Iâm reading âThe Great Gatsbyâ and âLes Miserablesâ with two of them as part of their high school summer reading assignments.

Posted 3 mon. ago.

Tune Room

Iâm running out of space on my iPod. Granted, I have the smallest size possible (2 GB), but itâs still astonishing that Iâve filled it with almost 500 songs. These songs cover the gamut of tunes I loved as a kid to songs my kids love now. Iâm debating buying an iPod with more capacity. I know I could delete some of the songs that I currently have to make room, but so many of …

Posted 3 mon. ago.

Allergies Driving Me Nuts

It happened again, and now, Mama ainât happy. My daughter is allergic to nuts, especially peanuts.Â Weâre lucky becauseâso far, she has not had a serious or life-threatening reaction (but thereâs no guarantee that that wonât change). She can be in the same room with nuts, at the same table as her brother eats peanut butter by the tablespoon, and not be affected.Â Wh…