Getting around

While some may use a blog as a place to just spew all that awful emotional crap that you don’t feel your loved ones deserve to enjoy, most of us hope that our blog will be read by others, and the more “others” the better. This is one of the reasons to engage in the [...]

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Bad parents! No soup for you!

So the long-suffering Cabana Boy and myself conceived it would be a great idea to steal a date night for the two of us. What were we thinking?
We left the children with my daughter, who has five kids of her own, knowing they were in good hands, and headed to Erie–I know, not the fancy [...]

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The autisms are coming, the autisms are coming!

Okay, that’s a little graphic.
But as you may have noticed in my sidebar, I’ve signed up, along with a bunch of other folk, to blog about autism awareness in April. Which is autism awareness month. In case we MISSED it. Autism, that is. Hey honey where is that autism? I know we just had it [...]

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Finding common ground

In the end, I think it came down to who had better drugs.
When I got to school for the team meetings for Little Miss and Captain Oblivious, the school psychologist and I, fighting off migraines, compared notes and treatment regimens, shared hints and tips. We bonded. We were Sisters. It was good.
It was the first [...]

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