Baby Therapy for a Prozac World
When you care for elderly in your home, it can be a life changing experience. Sitting in my office, I just heard my father talking to my deceased mother saying, “Hopefully, I won’t be long.” I feel tears well up in my eyes, but it is all he wants. I thought it would be a…
After a long month of rather aggravating series of events, driving in the car with some kids, I said, “Let’s just go to Burger King. I feel like eating garbage.” My son lovingly says, “You deserve it!” I looked over and said, “So, I deserve to eat garbage?” Hardest laugh all day. I needed that.
At our 20th anniversary dinner at the Brown Derby, I ordered a porterhouse, medium rare and a baked sweet potato. He ordered a porterhouse medium well with french fries. I say, “Oil and water. We are oil and water.” He says, “That works. Its an immulsion. It will stay together. You just have to keep…
According to the US Census Bureau in 2012, “Grandparents maintained 67 percent of coresident households. About 1 in 3 grandparent- maintained households had no parent present.” That is 67% of 4.2 MILLION households maintained by grandparents. WHAT? Those numbers shock me, and it is probably because I just didn’t grow up that way. People raised…
There seems to be an influx in the chatter about suicide today. I don’t know if it is because talking about it in public stopped being taboo or if there is an increase in suicides from earlier years, but either way, people are affected. It is the people part that I am interested in talking…
My four-year-old son looks like a seven-year-old. He is almost 60 lbs. and is built like a brick outhouse as they used to say in the olden days. (I think I may be keeping it G for the blog but you get the drift). He is a big boy but sometimes still acts like a…
The other day I was out weeding the garden, and as I looked down at my dirt covered hand, I saw a glimmer of something shiny that caught all of my attention. It was the single 1/4 carat diamond in my engagement ring. The light it gave off made me think of the day I…
We have been parents for almost twenty years, and yes, I count the day of conception as the start date of the parenting endeavor. So, all told, in a couple of months, twenty years will have gone by, and FAST! When we began this life together, we told each other a few things about what…
Every family has a bunch of words that were made up as the family, well, lived together in the same house for years and spoke. I like to think of these words as OUR family speak and if you know us, you can speak our language. If you don’t, then you can learn a new…
The kids were coming back from the bathroom at Church Sunday. Our six-year-old son’s shirt was untucked and super long because, well, I couldn’t find one in his size that morning. That’s another story. So, he proceeded to tuck in his shirt while standing in the pews where we sat. My ten-year-old daughter came back…
