April proved to be an amazing month for parenting, but not-so-amazing for blogging. In my kids’ already compacted schedule, we added a Scout promotion, a scholastic reading contest, several musical recitals and amazing ball games to name a few. The month yielded many highlights and challenges but as I entered May – with its exponentially…
Today being Cinco de Mayo, we threw a family fiesta! Trying to figure out a Mexican menu that both kids would eat challenged me. One kid eats quesadillas, the other hates melted cheese. One loves spicy food, the other gets easily burned. I settled on Chicken Fajitas. I immediately thought how colorful and beautiful it…
I hate that my cats know that when I’m home, they must act like model citizens and walk on the floor, sleep in their beds, and not scratch the couch. Because I’ve returned home unexpectedly and the cats freeze from their tabletop perch hoping if they don’t move, I won’t see them. I’ve heard them…
My son lost or forgot things 5 out of 7 days in the past weeks. My son is smart, too! I forgave him at first diagnosing him with “absent-minded professor” syndrome that can’t fit mundane tasks in the idea-filled brain. I instilled mindless habits like a “Boy Scout drawer” or “Putting cleats in your bag…
I remember walking home from an evening class. My path brought me past the gym that only the elite USC athletes used and I remember falling in step behind this huge figure with curly brown hair. As he turned a corner to head to his destination I instantly identified him and thought, “WOW, I was…
Let me introduce you to Meyers & Briggs. You may recognize the implication of these letters – to identify one’s personality type – even if you don’t know their meaning. While researching the colors of my parachute, I tested to see if my instincts and the experts agree about what I do well. This stemmed…
I’ve always wanted kitties that love to snuggle and hang out together! Don’t get me wrong, Blinky (16 years – the groomee) and Moonshine (2 years – the groomer) wrestle with fur flying at least once a day, but then the young’n helps the old’n. Of course, I can’t have this post without some cute…
I’ve noticed a trend of men in my life disappearing. They, including my son, float around aimlessly until you ask them to do something. Then they disappear for extended periods until I send Search and Rescue! Fortunately with the size apartment I occupy right now, it’s a short mission and more often than not, he’s…
My favorite house to live in was my first home in Baltimore, MD. It was the last house in a group of row houses with front and back stairways, basements, stacks of floors, seemingly endless closets and my favorite childhood place, the sun porch! Although we only had a sun porch until I was 8,…
Remember wandering through childhood, savoring each day? From pre-school we crawled through each milestone year and couldn’t grow up fast enough! I knew it all (you too?!) because I’d been alive for “forever!” Then, with working-woman and wife routines, time blurred a bit. When kids showed up, we all piled in the Millinivan Falcon traveling…
The first sunny day we’ve had since this challenge was first posted. Not to be ungrateful but I really need it to rain so my daughter’s softball game will get rained out so we can go to my son’s school competition! Thankfully within an hour the clouds started getting thicker. Can next week’s challenge be…
After getting out of Dodger town, Los Angeles, we watched from San Diego, as Angelenos lost it – their buildings, minds, even their humanity. We tried to make sense of an irrational situation and learned a few new things that aren’t found in textbooks. FIRES – Glued to our TVs, we learned to identify new…
