Everyone keeps warning us that when we finally do get a child we are going to be in a world of pain on the sleep deprivation. Well, last night and many nights over the last two months, I have not been able to sleep because of my mother. Last night, she fell again and her neighbor called alarmed when he found her with blood on her head. This was after two nights ago when she…
It starts out hot and ends up hot – air conditioning is the only way to go. You wait all year round for that garden to get all lush and inviting and then the temperature chases you back inside or the mosquitoes do. Yep that’s why we love it down here in the Gulf South – no breeze, humidity so high that the rocks sweat, air so warm you feel like you are ripening as…
I have heard from a lot of parents that they intend to raise their child to eat healthy, not watch television, and then they have children and park them in front of a video after going through the drive-through for dinner. Stuff happens. Well, here I was thinking that having a baby at 50 would make me a less neurotic mother than I would have been at 30. I read the article about free-range parenting…
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Wolfie and Loca are rescue dogs and they know it – so everyday they throw tons of love at us and make us want to take in 500 more just like them to give them homes. Alas, we can’t. There is a dog in the neighborhood who is being fostered and is looking for a home – if you or anyone you know are looking for a sweet dog, this one is for you! Please…
I was walking Loca this morning and thinking about running. I bought some new running shoes almost a year ago, and about six months ago started trying to run a few days a week. Only after the first week, I started having back issues, knee issues and so I quit for a while. Then I started feeling porky and wanted to run, and so started running again, and started having back issues, and knee issues…
When Loca and I were walking in the park yesterday, we caught up with what could have been my brother misplaced at birth and his dog. We were catching up on houseguests and an Irish Wolfhound puppy, when suddenly we heard this woman screaming. It was his dog then my dog going after a squirrel. Once that hysteria died down, the woman’s dog reached out and bit Loca on the nose and I saw blood…
Tomorrow is our cousin’s 14th birthday so we invited a friend who has daughters of a similar age. They are spending tonight studying where the hell Croatia is and are fascinated by this small country all of a sudden.
I ran into a friend at Rouse’s today and she asked why I wasn’t at the Gemini party last night and I said my inlaws arrived from Croatia. She said, “Oh lord, a while back I had a roommate from Yugoslavia and her family came to visit for an entire summer. It was like the Yugoslavs took over – they moved furniture, cooked weird food, and kept the curtains closed and lights dim.” She meant…
In the South, we have a saying, never say anything in one word that you can say in two, never call anyone one name that you can add a nickname or second part, and for goodness sakes, stay away from one syllable words – add an extra vowel or stretch the one you are given out for some good old fashion hick charm. Well, that said, we are putting together a seven page book of…