The Personal Blog of a Gen X Mom.
What’s it like for a mom to have five whole days to herself with no kid around because the kid is at a day camp for the first time? Allow me to share how my week has been. Monday- I walked my son in to camp and promptly found his group View Post
Today is the first day of summer vacation for E.B. and I. He’s been out of school for almost two weeks already, but Friday was my last day of work. Here we sit, side by side, still in our pajamas (with me sans makeup and hair pulled back) at View Post
A couple of weekends ago we went to our town’s annual Crosstie Arts & Jazz Festival. It’s exactly what it sounds like; live jazz music, art of every medium for sale (clothing, jewelry, paintings, pottery, wood, etc.) and many, many fabulous View Post
E.B. has a cough and his voice became really hoarse on Christmas Day. I started feeling yucky Friday after a trip to the store. I’ve lived in Mississippi long enough to know that my self-diagnosis of The Delta Crud was happening, so View Post
I love my new job so much, and I stay so super busy that I apologize for not updating with personal posts as much as I used to. I plan to do better on that soon. I find myself making tons of ideas for posts in my head throughout the day and then View Post
We just got back from our little family getaway to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area and one of the highlights of our trip was going to see the Texas Rangers play the Minnesota Twins at the Ballpark in Arlington. This was the first Major League Baseball View Post
The very first time we took E.B. to the zoo he was 2 years old. We had a heck of a time maneuvering his stroller and keeping up with him when we did let him out of the stroller to walk a bit. We've been anxiously awaiting the time to take View Post
You know your kid is growing up when he proclaims all of the kiddie rides at the fair as “lame” and prefers to do this instead. View Post
As we were driving home from a weekend outing Saturday evening, I realized it had been October since I had left the boundaries of our small town. October! Life seems to be moving at such a fast pace that this fact never dawned on me until I was out View Post
New Year's Eve was completely tame around our home. Cracked Daddy had to work, so E.B. and I spent the whole day and evening being quite lazy because it's been the only day since Christmas that we've been home with absolutely no prior commitments. View Post
