Sunday night one of my best friends from college, Mara, came to dinner. She lives in Arizona so I usually only see her a couple of times a year, but whenever she is in town she always comes over to drink wine with Louie and I. After we drank our chardonnay, ate salmon and…
How did she get to be so old?
With graduations, promotions and last days of school happening everywhere I am sure many of you are feeling how I felt today. How did my kid get to be so old? Well today, Trinity, the baby of our family rode her bike to school all by herself. She has been harassing us for months…
My feelings were hurt…..
Someone texted something to me today that really hurt my feelings. The weird thing was that it totally caught me off guard and then I got super upset. I got all fired up and was about to lash out at them but then realized it wasn’t worth damaging our relationship over a little statement. …
I have lost the right to complain…
As you can see from this picture, which I received via text from a close family member Tuesday night, he is mad at me for not voting. He sent me text messages all day Tuesday first asking if I voted and then when I responded “no”, he went on a full campaign of stalking…
Keeping up with the Jones’…..
I have to admit, I don’t try to keep up with anyone in town because it would be a losing battle but when it comes to my house, I do get streaks of jealousy and moments where I feel compelled to keep up with the neighbors. I love decorating and working on my…
Tiara, soon to be a freshman….
I was just thinking about the end of the year activities for Trinity and realized that if Tiara was still attending school she would be graduating from 8th grade in a few weeks. How did that happen? Wow, I can’t believe that she is supposed to be going to high school in September. I…
Am I in trouble or what?
I mean if they passed out awards for giving the meanest looks, Tiara would win by a mile. She has always been very expressive with her face, which has enabled her to get her point across even when she couldn’t verbally communicate her wants, needs or dislikes. Even though she can now pretty much…
And her new place to color is?
As you can see, Tiara has taken her art to a new canvas, my walls, my doors and my kitchen cabinets. Last night when Lou came home I said “Hey, did you see the walls? Look what she did!” His response, ” So what, didn’t you do that same thing at 3 years old?”…
You have to take your medicine!
If you are a parent, I am sure you have had to administer the dreaded oral antibiotics that taste disgusting once or twice to your child. As you know, it is not fun or pretty. Sometimes it takes bribery and serious coercion to get the medicine down. Well, Tiara has to take 17 pills…
Wow, it really does look like summer…
Clearly, I am having a little an obsession with my town, since I posted about it yesterday but today instead of driving around Newport I got to ride my bike. I love riding my bike to the beach! I grew up across the street from the beach but now I live about 5 or…