Wendy's Excellent Adventure

One of the things I do at night when I wake up in the middle of the night is play "what if?" in my head.  What if I had gone to Mi...

I was nervous about writing yesterday's post, but I'm so glad I did.  I've always felt like I had amazing friends, but really, y...

Much of the reason that I have been blogging so sporadically for, like, ever, is that I didn't feel I could write about the thing that w...

I've slept like total crap the last couple of nights.  Last night I woke up at 1:15 in the morning and didn't really get back to a f...

Zeke has had a wiggly front tooth for at least a month.  It got aggressively wigglier this past week, and because he knows it totally grosse...

While my East Coast peeps are freezing their booties off in the aftermath of Winter Storm Janus (when did we start naming storms that didn...

Even as a kid, I had little tolerance for what I perceived to be people talking down to me, or for wussiness or bullshit.  I used to yell at...

Even though I don't really use this space as a daily diary -- obviously, given the paucity of posts this year -- I love going back and r...

About two weeks ago, I was sitting in my office talking to one of my coworkers when all of a sudden I realized I was speaking in fits and st...

After I finished my workout this morning, I tip-toed into the kids' room to wake them up.  Both were asleep in Zeke's bed, snuggled...

"Mama, it's not daytime,"  Josie insists. I have just crawled back into bed -- my bed -- with Josie and Zeke, where they are...

Last month we went on our final camping trip of the summer.  We went to a place called State Forest State Park , up in the north-central par...

My dearest Josephine, you are now four years old.   In the last year, so much has changed, and so much of your you-ness has revealed it...

It's been a while since I did an " Aussie Word of the Day " post.  I think at this point I'm so accustomed to Aussie-isms ...

We went to New Hampshire last month for our annual family beach vacation.  Which was lovely.  Except that Josie and I came home with lice. ...

My children are always singing. Which I assume is a good thing.  Someone once told me that humming or singing to oneself is the sign of a ...

All I can say is, I'm really glad that when we went to Fake Steamboat , I didn't know what Real Steamboat looked like, because I wou...

Over July 4th weekend, we decided to take the kids camping.  We figured they're old enough, they love being outside, and it would be fun...