A few days after we got to my in-laws’ condo in Florida, Dad opened a little box on the hall table and pulled out the tiny mailbox key. He took the key and headed out the door, down the sidewalk to the laundry room at the end of the building. Inside the laundry room he […]
I spent yesterday shopping for school shoes with my two kids. It was also one of the hottest days of the summer. Why did I torture myself that way when I could’ve been lounging in the pool with the kids and being viewed as the good mom instead of the mean mom? Because I had […]
David and I are always talking about “unintended” consequences. As you go through your day, you never know what seemingly meaningless act on your part will have a life altering effect on someone else. 26 years ago we bought an antebellum house in a yet-to-be up and coming area in downtown Murfreesboro. In the 1920’s, […]
When the kids started driving, I was always worried they would wreck my car either by crashing into another innocent driver or by creating carnage on the interior as they rode about town slurping Slurpies and eating double decker tacos. Today, the roles were reversed. Since my back and hip have been being a pain […]
Ok, by now just about everyone knows that I have OCD. I try to clean everything, everywhere, every day. There is one area that does manage to escape my watchful eye though and that’s inside my minivan. I’m always driving my kids somewhere, whether it’s to school, baseball practice, baseball games, dance lessons, play dates, […]
