Ever feel like your life is a roller coaster ride and you’re suspended at the top right before the big plunge?  You have time to take a deep breath, wonder why you’ve agreed to come on this ride in the first place and then your butt drops but your heart stays in your throat?  It’s … Continue reading TWITCHY TOUCHES HER TOES or Mom of the Here

I like to play.  We just got a basketball net and I could’ve stayed out there for hours shooting hoops with Bill, stopping to let Ellie roll it around from time to time.  I like to pray and meditate too.  I like to watch movies in my pajama’s. I like to read and write and … Continue reading SuperGirl Wanna-Be

She’s crying again, tomp tomp tomp tomp tomp go her tiny feet, her fine black hair standing up in the breeze she’s creating as she’s running.  I kneel down and open my arms.  She runs into them with her own tiny arms open wide.  She snuggles down into the crook of my neck.  I pick … Continue reading Dobs of Poo. Or, VOTE ELLIE 2045!!!

First, HAPPY ALMOST HALLOWEEN!!  My second most favorite holiday.  I'm getting dressed up as a 'good witch' but minus the princess garb a la 'The Wizard of Oz'.  Why does the good witch have to look like a lost princess and the bad witch get the cool gear?  I intend to make THIS good witch look kick-ass (sorry … Continue reading Happy Almost Halloween and Long Live Meatless Monday!

I am schlumpy.  Somehow I’ve lost my way with my stay-at-home-mom-uniform.  (You know it.  Black yoga pants and various crinkled clearance-bin T-shirts.) Maybe I shouldn’t be sitting here in my stay-at-home-mom uniform with mysterious stains eating ice-cream and watching ‘The Devil Wears Prada.’  I’m the before Anne Hatheway, the one with the long skirt she got … Continue reading Schlumpy Mom

Nurturing.  It’s where I hit my stride, when I’m in ‘the zone’.  Whether it’s pruning a new transplant, watering, or finding a sunnier place for them to sit, I love it all.  I’m talking plants, of course but as I was weeding the garden out back I thought, it’s all nurturing.  Cuddling my baby girl, settling the … Continue reading Nurturer, Weird Deer Remedy, Spider Bites

Ellie has had her first ear infection at 17 months and her first dose of antibiotics yesterday.  I’m pretty worried she’s not drinking enough water.  To make things worse she didn’t have her nightly bottle last night because she fell asleep coming home from our friends house and she slept through the truck-to-crib transition.  She’s … Continue reading Ear Infections, Pole-Vaulting and Hasselhoff Dreams

Being a mom is hard.  Being a stay-at-home mom?  REALLY HARD.For me it was like I went through the five stages of grief.  There was Denial: I’m just staying home ‘for now’.  I’m not a REAL stay-at-home mom.  Anger: This is not what I imagined for myself.  I can find a job whenever I want!  … Continue reading A Mother’s Love

I just submitted an essay to a magazine about when one seemingly random decision changed my life.  It was reasonably entertaining so I’m going to cheat tonight and copy and paste it in here.  It’s the true story of how Bill and I met.  Not the WHOLE true story, but the main gist.  For those … Continue reading Cheat Night – the BRIDGED version of the Bill and Ange Story

Instead of writing my blog I watched the Saints game tonight.  Stupid Cardinals.  That’s all I have to say about that.  Now I'm going to bed late.  Past 9:00pm!!Earlier in the day I pruned the sago palms we planted last week.  Bill hung up some mirrors I’ve been harassing him to hang up for weeks.  … Continue reading Stupid Cardinals. Evil snails. Leaping Spiders. Lemon Tarts from Heaven. Trump hates Oreo.