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I should have entitled this post Play Date Etiquette Advice for Parents of Older kids. My kids are almost 3 and 5.5. Next year my older son (OS) will be in kindergarten. Since he just missed the cutoff (Sept.2 and the cutoff is August 31) for this year, many of his friends [...]

For the last few weeks I’ve been sharing the multitude of changes happening in my personal life. From ending my undergraduate with a bang, impending graduation and of course, acceptance into teacher’s college. It’s been a wonderful, harrowing, exhilarating process. Now – for the real details. Time for a job.
Each of the last four years [...]

Saturday my older boys (age 10) and my younger boys (age 6) were playing with two neighbor boys (ages 7 and 9). After bouncing on the trampoline at the neighbor’s house, they all trooped over to our house to play here. Everyone was downstairs playing various games when the doorbell rang. It [...]

When my older son was three, he loved playing at his friend’s house, conveniently located just across the street.  Loved it so much that it was the focus of most of his waking thoughts.
Can we go to L.’s house today?
Why can’t we go to L.’s house today?
Look!  L.’s car is in the driveway!  That [...]

One girlfriend from back home, four flirtini’s and six full seasons of Sex and the City leave me thinking about life, love and friendships. Call it nostalgia or just call me crazy, but why does life always seem sweeter in memories?
Before I moved away for university, I had a full life. I had a little [...]

Happy Holidays! Anyone finding themselves bombarded with a “to do” list that just never ends? Raise your hand so I can see you.
Now that I’ve started a multi-national wave – let’s get down to the real business. The business of busy. And, more importantly, the consequences of that. For those that know me, this is [...]

My first reaction was dismay. I’d torn open the envelope from Ten’s school, the envelope we’d been awaiting for the better part of a week. It contained a letter from his soon-to-be fifth-grade teacher, as well as a list of kids who would be in his classroom. For whatever reason, there are [...]

The other week, Hope was at camp with a bunch of friends. They found a racquetball court. They don’t play racquetball. So they did what they do.
They started singing.
One guy had a guitar, the rest sang the songs that they knew from church. They love to sing. They do well. They loved the wonder of [...]

When you are the parent of twins you experience some benefits of having two the same age as well as some drawbacks. I won’t get into how traumatic my girls early arrival was and how having two infants was more stress than I could have ever imagined, so maybe another time. What I’ve noticed, though, [...]

Recently, Ben spent his first night away from home. No, that’s not right. He spent his first half-night away from home. Around 11:30pm, my husband and I were watching the tail end of a movie when the phone rang. We looked at each other meaningfully before getting up to answer it. [...]