This, That, and the Mother Thing

I didn't know I had a hole in my heart until a flock of chickens filled it. I love everything about these birds!  I love how they ...

The events described in this blog were experienced, relived, and written about with a great deal of hand flapping and use of the phrase OOOO...

One of the fun things about having the kidlets is the new words they invent or misspeak.  As a psychologist who studies groups, it's a n...

Dave: "You know, we purposefully bought a house in the city." Me:  "Yes." Dave: "And then we turned it into a f...

So, next in the series of DIY projects are some cupcakes I made for Dave's work.  Folks at Dave's job have been working their bootie...

It is "knitted" or just "knit?"  I don't know.  In any case, I made this!! The pattern came from this one on Ra...

I submitted this column to the Charlotte Observer for consideration for their Guest Fashion column.  It hasn't shown up, so I'm thin...

People have asked me how I can work full time, be a mother, garden, knit, geek, and whatever else it is I do with my days. Do you know wha...

OMG.  Are you on Pinterest?  Follow me and I'll follow you back.  I LOVE that site.  All these great ideas of crafts for me to do, activ...

I realized that the last post left folks at the critical point without much resolution.  We were in the hospital and not getting out any tim...

So, why not a bar in a hospital?  Who needs it more than those of us spending the night with our sick loved ones and are too revved up to ge...

Greetings from the hospital. Everything is going to be ok.  But Christopher doesn't have pneumonia; he has RSV .  I think it's goo...

Sometimes, I have to blog to get some things out of my head so that I can move forward and do other things (e.g., work). So Christopher ha...

The kids are saying some very cute things lately and I want to remember them before it's too late.  Despite our first blog's semi-di...

Hmmm, wasn't there a Jimmy Buffet song that went something like "If the phone doesn't ring, it's me?"  I seem to recal...

She's crafty - she's gets around She's crafty - she's always down She's crafty - she's got a gripe She's cra...

((Insert comments about how busy I've been here)) OK!  Now that we have my excuses over, I'm going to talk about something that I...

Conor is starting first grade in two weeks. For some reason that seems so much older to me than kindergarten. It has a real number! We a...

So, imagine my chagrin after I posted my seemingly witty and insightful (by my standards) update about how much easier it gets when the kids...

I'm not sure it gets better (like in the campaign I like so much), but I want to tell mothers of twins (or MOMs) that it gets easier whe...