Tag: <span>family</span>

I grew up in a desert-scape of rock gardens, cactus blooms, clacking palm fronds, and golden sky-dome.  I grew up in the Arizona desert where we fried eggs on aluminum…

Thoughts and Musings

“Hey Mama.  Will you give me a special treat?  Guess why–’cause you love me?” Now tell me, please, how does an almost-three-year-old brain do the complex manipulations it takes to…

Thoughts and Musings

Do you remember today when you announced that you no longer care for Jack and Jill’s story due to their unfortunate spill down the hill? Remember when you face-planted-stomach-slid in…

Kids and Treasures Thoughts

1.  A little rain on Halloween does not deter a Pirate in search of sugary treasure. 2.  Some Pirates want to be a shark for Halloween, right up until the…

Thoughts and Musings

Apparently there’s no end to the lessons parents must learn.  Really, before Little Friend came into my life, I felt like a mostly responsible, reasonable, competent, well-rounded human being.  I…

Thoughts and Musings

Little Friend is now taking showers instead of baths.  This change has come about thanks to a newly realized fear of hers: the bathtub drain.  That black hole of a…

Thoughts and Musings