Holiday Eggshells

December means it’s time for everyone to get out their bag of proverbial eggshells to start walking on as we head into the Christmas Season. So this year before celebrators wave the religious white flag, I have some questions… Why do women without children not object to the phrase Happy Mother’s Day? Why are we [...]

My UN-Bucket List

aka…things I haven’t done and likely never will… I recently read the status update of a facebook friend, listing the various things that she has never done…I instantly decided to borrow the idea and do a counter-post to my previous “Bucket List” posting. So in no particular order, here is a exhaustive partial list of [...]

HOME

…..”May be surrounded by        A million people I       Still feel all alone       I just wanna go home      Oh, I miss you, you know”….. These words floated around in my car yesterday as I was driving down a winding road covered in autumn leaves. As beautiful as the drive was, all of [...]

(In)dispensable?

There is one moment that every mother fears, that point in time when something happens that causes her and she realizes that she is not indispensable to her family. I had that moment recently, and it wasn’t pretty. While recovering from surgery I was forced to watch my family survive without me for a couple of weeks. Meals, homework, housekeeping, [...]