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Something happened this Spring Break that I have been dreading for some time now. I knew it was coming. I knew I couldn’t stop it. I know this because Nature always wins. (Write that down.) The Swimmy lost her first tooth. Sigh. Yes. This bothers me. It’s like watching a sad little strawberry plant’s flower [...]

The weather here can’t quite figure out what it wants to do. So while it deals with it’s identity issues, we headed to the park. Benjamin all but attacked the playground which, in return, gave him a big wet kiss and welcomed him home.

Dear Benjamin, Today you are twenty months old. It’s also St. Patrick’s Day. It seems only fitting we celebrate this with a beer or nine. Actually, we’d be driven to that anyway given your recent level of activity and mischievousness. The other day you were playing in my makeup drawer – or rather, I was [...]

Dear Mystery Fever, Get off me. How is it that you have shown up two nights in a row with no other symptoms only to make me miserable with the achy joints and sensitive skin? Seriously? My hair hurts. This family is so very tired of The Sick that seems to be stalking us like [...]

Back in December, I was allegedly going to retire. I was going home. At least that was kind of the plan. For a variety of reasons we changed that plan a little and now that discussion is fully back on again. Only we’ve modified it a little so that I work part time for awhile [...]

I’ve said this a thousand times in a thousand situations where the possibility existed that something was wrong. Sometimes I actually meant it. But I’m done with those words now. I never liked them to begin with and tonight I put them to rest – because they’ve been said to me. Several weeks ago Benjamin [...]