As I mentioned last week, I’ve been doing a personal overhaul lately. I have been spelunking into the deep, dark recesses of my mind and pulling out the cobwebs. It’s a dirty business, I promise you. In the process, I had a friend tell me to keep my chin up, literally. She told me that when…

Today, our youngest is 16.  Unlike our other two, she wanted nothing to do with a party or anything else that involved us coordinating things to do for her and her friends. She let us know that she would make her own plans. She tried to wrangle a zoo trip and some laser tag with…

As we so expertly demonstrated last week on our blog, we are animal people. In fact, we hold animals in equally high regard as human people. So when I saw my neighbor’s dog, Lucy, running amok unattended last week it got my attention. I was sitting in my office working at the computer when I…

This weekend, the hubby and I went to the movies with another couple.  We went to see Blockers, which is a comedy based on parents who are trying to save their three daughters from following through with a pact they made with one another on prom night. These parents believe that if they don’t reach…

It’s that time of year again. The time where I procrastinate, avoid, elude and do all sorts of other ridiculous things in order to not prepare my taxes. I don’t actually even fill out the tax form, my accountant does, but the work of gathering all my info is tedious. I don’t enjoy it and…