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Just Add Water
Last week, my family and I traveled to Wrightsville Beach, NC for our annual vacation. I’ve been going to Wrightsville for 38 years, and I’m connected to the area in a way that feels like home. When...
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Spring Forward
Strange bed fellow. This past weekend, my husband and I went to a movie for the first time in at least six months. We saw “Hope Springs” starring Tommy Lee Jones and Meryl Streep. It’s the hilarious...
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History repeats itself
We can take them only so far. This is the year that I become a full-fledged parent. I have been a mother for 9 years, yet it feels like I’m just now earning my stripes. Looking back, I had trying...
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The Comma Momma
They think they’re so smart.I think they’re right. Q. What’s the biggest difference in the way kids do their homework these days? A. The kids don’t cry. The parents do. I might not pass fourth grade....
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Title Nine
I’ve been thinking about equality lately. I suppose it goes back to the blog I wrote about worrying about one child more than the other, and then feeling guilty about it. A close friend tried to...
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NoFacebook November: Week 3
This little experiment has gone from week to…weak. Saturday, November 10, 2012 I’ve Scene It All Now This afternoon, I gave Disney $19 for tickets to see the 12:30 showing of “Wreck-It Ralph”. I gave...
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NoFacebook November: Week 4 (The home stretch)
Monday, November 19, 2012 Thanksgiving is the affair that gave me an idea for the book I’m supposed to be writing - “Cooking for Dead People.” It started last year when I wrote about the hysteria of...
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‘Tis the season to be tortured
Ho, ho, ho? No, no, no. When I think of the Christmas season — which now begins before Halloween — I am reminded of family traditions from my childhood. Thanksgiving was a holiday honored until...
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Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease
This week, I had to hold my tongue and sit on my hand to keep from saying and writing what I really felt about something. It took more strength than I thought I possessed. Last night, I told Mike that...
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Dropping the ball
Are we having fun yet? I don’t know how you feel, but 2012 can’t end fast enough. It hasn’t necessarily been a bad year, but it’s been a hard one. Whereas New Year’s Eve makes me nervous and even a...
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Remote Access
Some time ago, I found myself in a verbal sparring match with a care adviser who was (at that time) coordinating my aunt’s home health plan. Even though I was on a cell phone discussing issues and...
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A Happy Bird-day
I didn’t have time to pull this off, but next year? Watch out! (Courtesy: Pinterest) On Saturday, our sweet Maryn celebrated her 7th birthday. Well, I can’t lie — I hosted “The Seven Days of Maryn” —...
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Face Off
The other day, I was waiting on my husband for an impromptu lunch date when I spotted an acquaintance whom I hadn’t seen in a while. We exchanged the traditional “hi, how are you’s,” but then the...
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Here’s looking at you, kid
It has been suggested that I seek professional help so many times that I’ve lost count. There was the recommendation of grief counseling after my parents died, the prevention of postpartum depression...
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To be or not to be…
…that is the question. This past Christmas, I bought myself a special gift. I ordered the weekend edition of The New York Times. On Sunday evenings, I kick everyone out of the living room so I can...
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Generation Why
Young and set in her ways. On the morning Ava was born, my husband and friend stood at the nursery window and stared at the 7.3 pound baby girl who had just failed her sucking test. Her lips remained...
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Lordy, lordy! Look who’s…
The beginning of May is a tremendously stressful time for my husband. It begins with my birthday on the seventh and it ends with Mother’s Day weekend. Two behemoth holidays (yes, Katy Day counts in...
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered
She slept through it all. Ten years ago, I ate a pound of tortilla chips dredged in hot salsa, chased it with Mexican combo dinner #6, washed all of that down with sweet tea, and then walked a mile...
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A Real Page Turner
There are certain childhood memories that refuse to fade. I distinctly remember coming home from a friend’s house one afternoon to face my mother, sitting in her living room chair, smoking what had to...
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Enough Said
School daze. I may have learned more about life in sixth grade than any other age, stage or phase. It was an awkward time fueled by being in the same building with the same people since kindergarten....
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