100 days of school behind us.  100 days of tears, fighting, enthusiasm, screaming, laughing, rejoicing, threatening, pleading, failure and success.  100 days of brick-and-mortar school... and a reluctant 4th grader who stays up too late and refuses to get out of bed in the morning until I've gone in there no less than five times … Continue reading 100 Days

We lost our beloved cat - Baily - our beautiful Himalayan on New Year's Eve. Baily was my husband's cat - when we decided to share a home together, his two cats came with us.  Lucas, the white Persian, left us two months after Ava was born.Baily celebrated his 14th birthday in December, and 2 … Continue reading A Time for Goodbye

My kids fight.  I mean, they fight a LOT.  I used to worry that something must be wrong with them, or that maybe something was wrong with me.  Eight years in the Mom's Club did little to change that - it seemed most of our children, content to play with other children, seldom fought with … Continue reading What’s All the Fighting About?