Giving New Meaning to Parenting

I spent the weekend watching Andrew.
Andrew is our 21-year-old son. He’s why I started writing here back in February. I thought it would be interesting to find out what I’ve learned about parenting by writing about him. It has been a good time of reflection on both of our children.
We spent Christmas day with Nancy’s [...]

I don’t really know how it happened. It seems I turned around for a moment, and when I looked back we’d accumulated a Game Cube, Nintendo DSes, and, now, a Wii. It alarms me that there are so many video games competing for my children’s attention. At the same time, I cannot [...]

I’ve never really been one for New Year’s resolutions.
Ok, so I do make them, but I rarely make it until February keeping them.  However, I don’t have much problem encouraging others to make resolutions themselves.  So here it is, my suggestion for this year’s resolution-  Read to your kids every night.
I know, I know.  Every [...]

A wise friend of mine from an online group wrote something a year ago that really caught my attention. She challenged each of us to sit down and write a list of brags and accomplishments for the year. When you’ve got the list, put a title on it: 2008 Resolutions. Then cross [...]

Last week, I wrote a screed about the evils of games. Funny how life works out. See, this past week, my sixteen year-old made the varsity squad for his high school soccer team. So, um, yeah, that was kinda ironic.
And so I have to go to the games and watch him play with guys who [...]

About 4 years ago, I decided that a treadmill would be the answer to all my problems. Instead of wasting time commuting back and forth to the gym, I would simply go to the basement when my son was napping and workout. I would be healthy, lose weight, and leave the basement to attend to [...]

Last week I saw a disturbing post on Twitter. There was a link to an blog post about “the” Childless B*tch. I was so taken aback that my curiosity got the better of me and I clicked on the link to read the post. Although I’m not one who is easily offended, I was appalled [...]

We have just survived a couple of the coldest days I have seen in the ten years that I have lived in Indiana.  With subzero temperatures and a thirty degree windchill, there was no way anyone was going outside, if they could help it.  It is supposed to get warmer this week, and the snow [...]

“wanted to make sure the door wouldn’t be locked.”
That was the text I got from our 17 year old daughter at 12:41am.
She was out with friends. The power was out at our house and the houses of some of the others. The girls of the madrigals group decided to spend the night at a warm [...]

Those of you who “know” me from my blog already know about my Mom.  For those who don’t, the Reader’s Digest Condensed Version goes like this:
My Mom lost my dad nearly 5 years before Twinks was born.  Not long before I became pregnant with Twinks, she met, and subsequently married a man who – while [...]