Wendy's Excellent Adventure

I'm doing a three week cleanse/detox program that I started this past Wednesday (perhaps especially apropos in light of the Great Lollip...

Last week I was having a lot of achy muscle pain in my upper back, between my shoulder blades, and in my hips.  Achy achy achy.  Even when I...

I received an email today from the grandmother of one of my sorority sisters, who lives in Boulder (the sorority sister, not the grandma).  ...

It's been a very hectic time, one of those periods when I constantly feel like my head is spinning and I can't keep up with everythi...

It's hard to even celebrate her departure because he is all sad about her leaving.  For reasons that escape me (sort of), he really like...

She's leaving in three days, so I really should be very Zen about the whole thing at this point.  But I'm finding myself increasingl...

I was having a sleepless night recently and finally got so bored that I picked up my iPad and went online.  There was an email from Babycent...

I'm having my daily morning snuggle with Josie.  She's drinking some milk and is leaning into me while we watch Yo Gabba Gabba.  I...

A number of people have asked me, "so how's it going with MIL?"  They always ask the question as if they're bracing themse...

The MIL chronicles are about to begin anew.  Long-time readers of this blog may remember when MIL and Pa came to visit us in Hawaii four yea...

My experience as the parent of young children is that much of it is an exercise in perseverance - trying to endure the difficulties of a par...

Josie has probably worn a dress 2 or 3 times in her entire life.  I think dresses on little babies that aren't even sitting up or are st...

My kids are lovely, sweet and relatively well-behaved.  But bedtime remains a struggle.  Josie will go to sleep at a reasonable hour, about ...

Zeke and I were talking last night as I lay with him at bedtime.  I said, "you know what?  Only three more sleeps until Mimi and Papa c...

We got a juicer.    Over the weekend, J and I were chilling out on the couch and started watching Sick, Fat and Nearly Dead , a documenta...

Every night, I put Josie in her bed and I sit in a little chair next to it and read her stories.  Lately The Snowy Day and Llama Llama Miss...

Sometimes in maintaining a blog, I get too into the notion of themes -- of telling stories that have some overriding point, or of depicting ...

Let me start by saying that my mother is a highly intelligent, sophisticated, worldly individual.  She is extremely well read and has travel...

There's a lot of talk about tooting in my house.  We're all quite adept at it, and we all think it's funny. Immature, yes.  Bu...

This is the true story...of 4 people (well, mostly 3 of them) in a family...are forced to spend time together, all day, every day, for 10 da...