So, we did it and I lived to tell the tale! Tyler woke up around 6:45 on Saturday morning and when I told him we were going to the beach he started crying and saying he didn’t want to go. Weekend mornings are Tyler, Daddy and television time and the two of them look forward [...]
I hate Mondays but not for the reason most people do as I no longer work, so I don’t have what my husband refers to as “Sunday Stress” leading to Monday Morning Dread and Panic.
For me, every Monday is the same. I wake up exhausting and hurting after taking care of Tyler all weekend long. [...]
Due to exhaustion, pain and the fact that people with Lupus shouldn’t be out in the sun too much, I haven’t been to the beach in about two years. I’m not feeling any better, in fact, I’ve been doing a bit worse lately. But tomorrow, my mother, son and I are packing up and driving [...]
This book was given to me at no cost as a member of the From Left to Write book club.
When I first saw the plot summary for The Stuff That Never Happened by debut author Maddie Dawson, part of me thought “Oh Lord, please don’t let this book be another The Bridges of Madison County, [...]
This book was given to me at no cost as a member of the From Left to Write book club. This post was inspired by this book.
The Stuff That Never Happened by Maddie Dawson is a book with a “What If?” type of plot. Annabelle McKay marries young and quickly, and finds herself having an [...]
I’ve been blogging since June of 2008, first with the Silicon Valley Moms Group. When BlogHer ‘08 came around I was barely familiar with what it was.
I started this blog in May in 2009, and really wished I could go to the July ‘09 annual BlogHer conference in Chicago. But I couldn’t because I was [...]
Tyler and I went to a blueberry festival at a Protestant Church a few weekends ago. It’s funny, you parents drag you to these things that you complain about as tweens and teens as really cheesy and then you bring your kids to the same things! We didn’t know a soul but the people there [...]
Sometimes it frustrates me that people who have the same diseases I have are doing better than me. I’m not jealous of them, I don’t want anyone to be sick. It just gets to me that some people can have serious diseases and are able to function so well. For example, I know a friend [...]
This month was our first full month using the Food Stamp program. Applying for Food Stamps was very stressful for me because we were on the poverty borderline, so I really wasn’t sure if we would get them. They only take in to account your income, rent and childcare. Credit card debt (which unfortunately we [...]
The New York Post today in an article written by Carrie Seim. The article is about banning gifts for kids’ birthday parties. I’m quoted at the end. It is on-line and in the newspaper.
Here is the original post that I had written on the subject:
No Gifts For Kids’ Birthday Parties?
Anyway, I’m really excited because it’s [...]
