I decided to rearrange the furniture in my living room. I thought maybe if I rearranged the room it would feel cleaner, newer, refreshed. I dragged the piano to three out of four corners of the room. I tried plugging the lamp into one outlet and then another. Should the sewing machine be on the…
The Menu: Italian Wedding Soup Potato Kielbasa Skillet Homemade Strawberry Frozen Yogurt When I was a kid I remember sitting on the same counter my kids currently do. Then it was my Nannie’s, my mom’s mom. I pushed the same wooden chair to the cabinets, hoping to find a shift in her warm and busy…
It is 2016 and the campaigners vying for my attention are relentless. No, not “those” campaigners, the Mini Macks (V), (very independent) . Cody is currently the loudest making his platform known,
Chocolate cake and lights was all I had to go on for Cody’s third birthday party. I knew I had hit the target when he woke up to find lights strung throughout the living and dining room and his eyes followed the colorful strings of lights to a big chocolate cake in the center of…
“I like you in your underpants…” I say with a giggle to Cody who has entered my room with exuberance wearing only his new underpants. He giggles at my compliment, receiving exactly what he was hoping for. “I love you too,” he says as he runs down the hallway laughing wildly and running with his…