I got lucky, like incredibly lucky, in the father and husband department. Aside from my children, one of the most defining relationship I have is with my father. This is not a slight against my mother, whose love and light personified (I kid you not, my mother is an absolute angel) but there’s a dynamic…
Mother’s Day 2018 Edition
I’ve been a mother for a good fourteen years now. So I’m currently in the midst of parenting a teen–someone send wine. But it isn’t as bad as I expected. I suspect I was far more work than my oldest (my poor mother). Aside from the push back, a natural consequence of someone trying to…
I Don’t Know How To Talk to My Teenage Son
There are a lot of things I can talk about to my 14-year-old. I can talk to him about football (which I know very little), and rugby (which I know even less). But I try because he loves these sports and plays for his high school teams. I can talk to him about girls to…
My (Version) Valentine’s Day
My last first Valentine’s Day was twenty years ago. So let’s just say I’m a bit rusty at this thing. Actually, my husband and I are both a bit rusty. We don’t plan on Valentine’s Day anymore. At least not the traditional kind. But we have our own version. This year, we spent it at…
A Non-Traditional Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving was a little bit untraditional for us. Everybody had plans so my small family of six had Chinese food and cheesecake for our Thanksgiving meal. It was unconventional and it was perfect. But we did have our traditional Thanksgiving two days later–turkey and all the fixings, dessert (a ton of it), some wine…
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