The Personal Blog of a Gen X Mom.
Every Friday night, my parents, my son, and I have a ritual of going out to eat. We’ve been doing this for a few years now and it’s great to not to have to worry about what’s for supper and having to actually prepare a meal. E.B. is very View Post
I shop at Dollar General every week, and one of the things I love most about DG is that they are a company that believes in giving back. I’m especially loving the fact that as a new school year has started, Dollar General and Procter & Gamble View Post
My 20th year high school reunion is next weekend. Anyone know how I can drop 75 pounds in a week? NO? Nobody?? Didn’t think so….. Shopping for something to wear to said reunion has stressed me out. Calling being View Post
Perhaps it’s because I’ve been cooped up inside all day with a seven year old with the stomach virus and suffering from lack of sleep, but it just occurred to me today that hurricanes really bring out the….I’m struggling here for a word View Post
It started this past April. My high school friend “E” sent me a private message on Facebook telling me Duran Duran would be performing in Memphis on August 17, three days before my 38th birthday. Did I want to make plans to meet up and View Post
Whose kids bounded into the door of the school with exuberance and came home telling me he LOVED being a first grader this past week? Mine! He also pulled out his other front tooth (can you guess what all we want for Christmas is?), found View Post
I hate it when my son and I take a semi-decent pic while out to eat, only to get photobombed by Plastic Hair Roller Lady. *Can’t believe people still use plastic hair rollers. *Can’t believe people wear them in public. View Post
I will be spending my last weekend of summer freedom watching the playback videos of Duran Duran showing the world how it’s done in Hyde Park pre-Olympics, making sure all laundry is clean, gathering up my teaching/library supplies, and snuggling the View Post
We couldn’t wait for the day when we would be able to hear E.B. read books to us. As a mom, it was a parenting milestone I looked forward to. As a librarian, I know how important establishing good reading habits early on can make all the View Post
We spent an entire day at Grapevine Mills Mall in Grapevine, Texas while on our family vacation. Besides all of the many, many stores to shop at, the mall is also home to Legoland Discovery Center and Sea Life Aquarium. After a fabulous lunch at View Post
Today is my final post about “The Hunt: 11 Days Of Doing” from DoSomething.org, the nation’s largest organization for teens and social change, in partnership with Lenovo, the world’s second largest PC maker who helped found the campaign last year, View Post
