Rosie turned fourteen this Fall. She wanted to have friends over to hang out and of course wanted candy, popcorn and a bunch of junk but she really didn’t want a party theme. I did because I love planning, so I talked her into a photo booth idea which morphed itself into a Polaroid Party…
Turning 29
My good friend Amber is turning 29 today (be sure to check out her blog here). While she thinks it’s really old (and I have to confess that I did too when I was her age), I have to laugh now- sitting here in my mid 40’s, 29 seems so far away- I wasn’t even…
Bye-Bye Thirteen
Being Thirteen sucks. You don’t realize how much until you watch your child turn the magical number and then start to re-live all the shitty things that can happen to a teenager when they least expect it. Often this year, I’ve likened parenting a teen to watching a train suddenly go off the tracks- you…
Turning forty-six
It just hit me this morning that it’s May and my birthday is right around the corner. In two weeks, I will be forty-six and while I’m flattered that some of you just went, “Really, you don’t seem like in your late 40’s,” I am. And, for the first time in my life an age…
Ten things I wish my mom told me as a teen
Rosie turns 13 tomorrow. So, it got me to thinking. What are the ten things I wish my mom said to me before I embarked on my teen-age journey (in her defense, she could have said them. I may not have listened. I was more than a little stubborn for the first 25 years of…
