Marriage and Family
Choose Wisely
My dad used to be a divorce lawyer and this was his motto: “Love is grand, divorce is one hundred grand. Choose wisely.” Choosing a mate is not the same as choosing a friend. You’re allowed to have more than one friend and if you read my last entry “The Friend Philosophy,” you know I don’t believe in expecting one…
Read MoreGive It Up, Sports Freak
Dear Husband, I had lunch with my mom today and I mentioned that you gave up part of a football game last night to watch a movie with me. The girls were asleep and we don’t get to hang out as much as we used to at night, but I was still kind of surprised because it was…
Read MoreThe Real Good Days
I recently walked into a conversation and one of the women was saying that the day she gave birth was the best day of her life. Well, it wasn’t for me. It sucked. I was in labor for 16 hours and the pain was unbearable. I have a pretty high tolerance for pain but at one point,…
Read MoreNeutrogena, Be Gone!
I grew up in a colonial style home. It had stairs. It never failed that as soon as I was out-the-door, ready to go, I would remember that I forgot something—something that was, of course, upstairs. And then when I would get home, there always seemed to be piles of clothes and other stuff lining the first…
Read MoreBelly Hurts
My youngest daughter, Lovey, is currently due for her 2-year-old check up. The doctor’s office is in Petoskey, a cute little town in northern Michigan about 45 minutes away from camp, so I decided to make a day of it.
Read MoreDaddy’s Girls
My girlfriend, Busy, and I were just on a girls getaway trip. After being gone all weekend, I was excited to see my daughters. I missed them very much, and I was under the impression that they felt the same way (well, maybe not the little one, she’s nineteen months old and doesn’t know what day it is—but the older one is almost…
Read MoreWalt Disney’s Progress Report
My girls aren’t big into TV. They like the show Imagination Movers, but outside of that, TV is not really their thing. Disney movies are what’s big in our house. I have to believe, on some level, that Walt Disney and his people knew his movies were going to be big. He was a pioneer on the…
Read MorePlaybill: Cast of Characters
My husband and I have a daughter who (whom?) we adopted from China in March of 2008. She was 11 months old. When she was a baby, I had bibs made that said “MADE IN CHINA.” I thought it was funny. You might not. Should you choose to stop reading now, I will completely understand…
Read MoreDim Sum & Doughnuts
Remember when Jerry Seinfeld’s wife came out with that cook book about deceptively hiding vegetables in food so kids would eat them? I thought that was such a cool idea but all of the sudden moms everywhere were saying “I have been doing that FOREVER! I could have written that book!” This is that kind of…
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