Serena is watching cartoons on my phone. I know, I’m a terrible parent and she’s losing IQ points as I type this. Deal. So she knows that if I get a text message she has to pause her movie and hand the phone over to me. But she also knows that I get a lot [...]

Apparently I don’t want to blog about my kids anymore. This blog has been dark for a month while birthdays and family stories and cute memories have slid past in the sticky, messy, wonderful flow of July. And I have a few posts waiting to go. But they’re not about how Serena turned 4 (she [...]

I began gardening a couple of years ago with a lot of enthusiasm. Turns out, I’m not very good at it. I don’t have a big appetite for the physical labor involved, I get distracted during the planning phase, I’m always doing things at the wrong time. Essentially, I don’t put in enough time, money [...]

Martin is away at a conference for the week. I miss him, the kids miss him, and he just left today. We had a fun day hanging out with friends, but it’s just not the same with Daddy gone. As much as the kids missed their dad today though, they will miss him even more [...]