Finally posting last week’s column. Thanks for reading! Did you know that it’s Shark Week on the Discovery channel? Every night, there are new and exciting programs about these ferocious fish. I love Shark Week. Something about those bad boys of the ocean has always fascinated me. I remember reading “Jaws” countless times as a [...]

(As I sat down to work on this week’s column, I realized I forgot to share last week’s piece. Here ’tis!) I think my entire family needs to have our hearing checked. Either that, or we all need to take a course in Communications 101. I could be sitting right beside my husband, but he [...]

Sometimes the most wonderful thing to do is absolutely nothing at all. Last week I was crowned the Queen of Sloth, the Duchess of Downtime and I loved every single moment of it. I knew I needed a vacation well before we started packing, but it wasn’t clear exactly how much until we’d been in [...]

Our normally chaotic household of five has been reduced to a family of three this week. It has been so very odd, and so unusually quiet, with Eli in Florida with his grandparents and Zach away at camp. Poor little Jonah keeps toddling around, asking for his “Zzzat” and “E-la-la” and I know he must [...]

(Pardon the poor picture quality–it’s the only one I could find to go with this piece, and it’s from 5 years ago! LOL) It’s summertime again, and you know what that means: parents everywhere are taking kids on road trips. We’ll be hitting the road later this summer and I can’t decide if I’m looking [...]