My kids are dating? Game on
There’s a thin line between insanity and coping with your daughter dating.
Our son is 16 and has begun to date a sweet and lovely...
These weighty issues
I am currently having an argument with my thighs. They didn’t use to irritate me, but lately, they’ve been on my last nerve.
I recently...
A practical addiction
For nearly a century, East Liverpool dominated the United States pottery industry ... During its peak production years (1865-1910), East Liverpool’s potteries produced and...
The secret to my success
I never tied my mother’s sheer curtains under my chin and paraded down the stairs playing “bride.” I didn’t plan Barbie’s wedding to Ken....
Helicopter parents who hover, smother
When they are toddlers, we stand within eye and earshot pretty much all of the time. We walk around with our arms outstretched and...
Baby, you can drive my car
Proving once again you can’t trust the government, our fair state has decided my son is old enough to drive. This, of course, is...
The unbearable silence of too clean
Every parent knows that silence in small children is not necessarily golden. In households with young children, too much quiet is an instant alert...
It’s all a wash (and we can eat off one of my son’s socks)
The home remodeling continues: Puzzling over LEDs and spin cycles.
I really am lucky to ‘get to’ be so stressed
When you really get down to it, life is made up not of what you “have” to do but what you “get” to do — and that makes all the difference.
You light up my life
When Mr. Wonderful came home and lit a candle before we sat down to eat, I was noticeably touched. Such a romantic!
Scratch that. False...
