Happy Birthday to the greatest guy on the planet. I love you!  

Tomorrow is Donnie’s birthday, and tonight was the only night I could wrangle him away for a quiet date. So we went out for Italian, had great food and nice conversation. Afterwards, we needed to do some shopping, but wanted to stop by the house to put my leftovers in the fridge. So we got [...]

  According to my son, Eli, Stevie and PJ are hummingbird brothers who frequently fight over our new hummingbird feeder. He says they fight because they think it belongs to both of them, but they have to learn how to share.   When I told Eli that Stevie and PJ are going to have to [...]

(That subject line could inspire quite a variety of mental images, couldn’t it?) I wish I could blog about fascinating topics, such as world travel, organic wines, and the joys of Manolo Blahnik shoes. But my mind is usually focused on this life here in middle-class suburbia, deep in the trenches of motherhood. So yeah, I get [...]

Eli actually ate a raw baby carrot for the first time tonight. Then he went really crazy and devoured another. Then he asked for some ranch dressing to dip them in. All total, he ate four or five baby carrots. If you’ve never had a picky eater, you probably think I’m nuts for being so overjoyed! (Most [...]