This morning I was paying my parents a short visit. Eli played rough with my dad. My mom and I watched in amusement, commenting on how different boys can be from girls. We're not a rough-and-tumble kind of family, he just came wired that way. … [Read more...] about Please Send Bubble Wrap and Smelling Salts.
FBI Shuts Down Online Poker, Ticking Off Millions of Poker Players and One Mommyblogger
Don't quit your day job, baby. Something is different around here. The office chair, which once was occupied in the evenings by the resident poker player, sits empty most nights. The double screens of our home PC, which once were filled with eight poker tables … [Read more...] about FBI Shuts Down Online Poker, Ticking Off Millions of Poker Players and One Mommyblogger
Of Daiquiris and Dear Friends
For five years in a row now, my girlfriends and I have managed to leave reality behind and spend a few days together. We met when our firstborns were just babies, when we didn't have a clue what we were doing. We all lived in the same neighborhood, and our … [Read more...] about Of Daiquiris and Dear Friends
Bluebonnet Fairy Tale
We're home from Texas. We had a wonderful time, and the kids keep asking when we can go back. If I had a magic carpet I would fly back in an instant. I'm not quite ready to repeat another 15-hour car trip again, though. Instead, whenever I … [Read more...] about Bluebonnet Fairy Tale
Taking This Show on the Road
Greetings from Texas! It's Spring Break, and for once we've actually gone somewhere more than one state away. On Friday morning my good friend Julie and I packed up the kids (all 5 of them!) and drove straight through from Indy to Tulsa, Oklahoma. Or, … [Read more...] about Taking This Show on the Road