Some secrets are meant to be kept (Flashback Friday)
From January 21st, 2005 Sami and I have a secret, sacred mother-daughter code. Anytime that we share something with each other that we don’t want anyone else to know, we put up our pinky fingers, lock them, do a little circular handshake and intone “Mother-daughter sphere—promise?” This is to keep Sami from spilling out my […]
One Mom’s Fight Against Tuckuses and Ticks (Flashback Friday)
From March, 2006 (Sam was 14 – at 19, she now makes much better musical decisions!) : Sam loves music. If she could, her headphones would be surgically implanted for her constant listening pleasure. Unfortunately some of the music Sam enjoys falls way short of my this-is-so-not-good-for-you parental antennae. We’ll be in the car, flipping […]
Camouflage Mama and True Beauty (flasback Friday)
October 15, 2006 Camouflage Mama It happens every afternoon around 4:37 p.m. I don my camouflage pants and head out the door. Sam’s bus arrives at the bottom of the hill at 4:39. She’s in high school now. Cool. Happening. She wears lip-gloss and just a touch of foundation to take off the shine. She […]
It’s not easy being a woman (flashback Friday)
November 21, 2003 Being a woman is hard, and the traps of womanhood snare me with greater and greater frequency. It all started with the whole eyebrow waxing thing. Once I started, I couldn’t stop. How would that look? One eyebrow to two, two eyebrows to one. Way too confusing. Then there came the panty […]
Cute boys, worthy goals and lasting life tokens (Flashback Friday)
Well, after tallying all the results, organizing them, sifting them and analyzing the polls from this week, I’ve come to a huge decision: I’m going to post whenever the stuff comes pouring out of my brain. Actually, you really helped me come up with a plan. I’ll share once or twice a week and then […]