Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>

By the end of the day, one little boy was fast asleep with a puddle of drool soaking into his monkey car pillow.  Two little girls were giggling over the…

Thoughts and Musings Wanderings and Travel

We welcomed a mud monster into the shower last night. When one has a child who has discovered the miraculous marriage of water + garden dirt, one does not allow…

Thoughts and Musings

Dear Future Little Friend, In case I forget to tell you ten years from now, I love you.  In case you forget, ten years from now, how “cool” you think…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

50 things to do in summer with (or without) kids “Summer’s lease hath far too short a date.” Preach it, Brother.  I mean, it’s Shakespeare, after all.  The man deserves…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings

It’s the postman’s tread on my front porch. It’s the tea kettle’s whistle that goes ignored for minutes because the laughter in the other room is too loud. It’s the…

Thoughts and Musings

“EB not know how to fix this bracelet.” It’s today’s tempest in a teapot.  A flimsy plastic purple bracelet (“Hey mom.  This EB’s fav-0-rite color.”) has had the audacity to…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts and Musings