Dear Loveyboy:

As you begin kindergarten tomorrow morning, I am filled with so many emotions.

Excitement – We have been talking about this for a long time, you are excited about learning to read and that makes me smile.

Fear – Will the other kids be mean to you because you are skinny and wear glasses.

Longing – You [...]

Despite my best efforts, I turned forty (fourty?) shit, who cares.   At happy hour that night, someone asked me what I learned in the first 40 years.

BIG MISTAKE.

1. Perception is everything.  Facts don’t matter nearly as much as how something (a conversation, an incident) makes you feel.  Two people can have an interaction and walk [...]

I have to laugh – my mom (bless her heart) was all secretive about the Croquet Set she got for lovey for his upcoming 6th birthday (ok, wtf is croquet anyway and why the hell would a 6-year old care?) – this from the woman who gave my two-year-old daughter monogrammed towels and a towel [...]

I probably don’t need to mention it again, but just in case you didn’t know.  I am not a writer.  In fact, I started this blog after finding and reading blogs for many months. Blogs are, by their format or nature, totally hilarious, thought-provoking and tragically sad, usually all at the same time.

I was so [...]