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I am now having conversations with expiration dates. Several times each week, as I check to see when an item expires, I have thoughts like the following: “06.15.2020. Maybe we can consume you at a playground, string cheese.” “07.27.2020. As you meet your demise, aged parmesan, I bet the outdoor pool will be open.” “10.27.2020.…

A couple of weeks ago, the kids and I decided that this song would be our “Quarantine Song”. We listen to it every night before bed. It’s also included in my running setlist and every time it pops on, I think to myself, “I’m going to pull images from this strange time and put them…

I wrote a post about saying goodbye to our amazing Orangman, Tucker. The boys were there when he took his final breath. It was a decision we didn’t take lightly. Please swing by. It was difficult to write; there was a lot of crying. I miss him so much. We all do. RIP my sweet,…

The Wipers. You’re doing 70 MPH on the highway. There’s a storm up ahead. The storm is moving toward you. Since you’re also moving fast, it hits you quickly. Suddenly, it’s absolutely pouring—one of those torrential downpours. You turn the wipers on full-blast, but they do very little. The rain is coming down so violently…

Hello! LONG time no write! I wrote something for Alpha Mom about Camp Boudreaux, which is on year two and I’m only partly losing my mind. (More on that in a bit. I feel like writing.) For now, stop by, friends!

This morning we took part in our local Memorial Day parade. At one point, I ran ahead to get a shot of the kids holding the banner of one of our local preschools and right as I took the shot a few of them gleefully screamed out, “DRONE! DROOOOOONE!!!!!” Sure enough, we all looked up…

But I’m cool with starting here. NYC Will Consider Ban On Disposable Plastic Straws Incidentally, my kids often become annoyed with me whenever we go out to eat and I ask the waiter to skip the straw. They roll their eyes and say, “But Moooooooom, we like straws! Why can’t we have a straw!?” And…

My son’s elementary school variety show took place last night. Every year they bring in a new artist residency, the medium changes, but basically the kids get to learn something new and present it to the community.  This year it was a circus, which is nothing short of awesome. My son was to walk on…