My kids are 13 and 8 now.  Easy - most of the time. I had almost forgotten about Murphy's Law and how it is exponentially magnified when...

We went to see Beauty and The Beast on opening night.  Here's why you should see it too.  It's bold, bright and beautiful to wa...

I get camping bladder.  This is similar to travel bladder - you know - when you believe you need to go to the bathroom (all evidence t...

Feld Entertainment Brings the #1 Animated Movie of All Time to Life with Disney On Ice presents Frozen  Presented by Stonyfield YoKids Or...

Image: myfriendbettysays.com I took a job.  The kind where you get paid.  The kind where people say things like "Oh, you're w...

Meet Fergus.  He's lovely - he's about 3 months old and very sweet natured. He is the fulfillment of a promise made over a ye...

I am walking back in the land of the living.  My desk looks like a tornado whirled through it.  My to do list needs it's own secretary...

  Growing up without a mother was always going to be tough but not always in the ways you would think. I grew up in a family that...

They have made a TV show about it - that should have been my first clue.  If I been paying attention I would have noticed just how many ...

I'm sure you saw this story on the news, youtube, twitter, instagram - they were all lit up about it. A beautiful, heartwarming ...

I love the theatre.  The deep red, lush curtain which hides the promise of an hour or two of delightful distraction from the everyday.  ...

You don't smell like you.  This was my greeting from the five year old on my return home after five days away.  The longest I have e...

Thanks to everyone who donated!  The ten year old and I did a few good deeds in return for a donation  but several of you gave just because...

Today I am featured as part of the 31 voices Underblogging this October.  Stop by today and every day this month to read a new voice. ...

Noooooooooooooooooooo!  I don't like it, I won't eat it. Just try it. Mom! Noooooooooooooooo! I'm not hungry, I won...

Every now and then I get the urge to take off.  Sometimes it's just a desire to rent an RV for the weekend and drive off to plac...

Back to reality.  I am the living embodiment of a cliche - the at home mom.  Which is fine and a little disappointing to me.  It doesn...

I have stayed home with my children.  I never thought I would but it turned out to be what I wanted. It was hard. Very hard. Harder t...

Deciding what to do with your kids over the twelve (long) weeks of summer breaks takes imagination and planning.  We try to do one adv...

I am surprised almost daily by the fact that I am the mom in a house with two kids in it.  How can it be? I remember feeling my clock ...