Dear Babysitter, Thank you. Thank you for watching our kids tonight. For making them smile, and for keeping them safe. This is the crux of your role, and you do it so well. However, I don’t think I’ve ever thanked you for something else. Something else that is also so important to my life, and…
How do I do it all? Simple. I don’t. We do. For every hour I spend writing an article, he is emptying the dishwasher and refereeing arguments. For every hour he spends working out, I am folding clothes or filling milk cups. I get to work on time because he knows how to get our…
Do you ever wonder what your life would look like if one thing had gone differently? If you had chosen a different college? Practiced harder at basketball? Studied for that test? Not gotten on that plane? I was left wondering that as I sat in the second to last row of TD Garden watching the…
We have visitors in our house. They are unwelcome. They are UNadorable. And they don’t clean up after themselves or make the beds. OH SWEET LORD, I hope they haven’t been in our beds… The mice are back. Back again. And I’m not happy about it. When You Give a Mouse an Inch It’s probably…
“You know what could be fun and not at all awful? Let’s have a yard sale!” Apparently I haven’t seen enough memes and tweets about the royal pain in the rear that are yard sales to deter my enthusiasm for this endeavor. Our attic was full, our kids had outgrown many things – it seemed…