Sometimes parenting (or cleaning/organizing a house with) young children feels Sisyphean: that I, just like this mythological man, am striving to push this boulder up a hill, only...

My younger brother, Josh, had heart surgery last Monday for a congenital heart defect only recently discovered. (He’s now back at home in Keller recovering really...

Liam has had a loose tooth for the last few weeks, which he has managed to diligently wiggle in regular intervals throughout the day, knowing that somehow, this...

For the last week I’ve debated whether to put this on the blog in pursuit of saving face (as well as my son’s). But, in...

It seems like a year ago, as opposed to five, that I was holding you for the first time. I remember the nurse handing you...

This last week, it seems that Liam has officially crossed the bridge taking him from the ephemeral days of baby-dom into destined boyhood. We’ve seen glimpses...

“[Mom] also drove my sisters and myself crazy by folding the most personal moments of our childhood lives into her talks as further illustrations of...

I’m going to reengage and confess that I’ve been a b*tch this last week. We all have — well, carried some form of the attitude anyway. Or...

Today, I took the kids to go swimming. On the way (not really), I picked up a car-less friend who lives on this little dirt...

To say that I love the ocean may be an understatement, but it will do. I never feel as liberated ( in all manners) as when I...