The Divine Miss Mommy

For a long time, I put my passions aside for what I believed to be the good of my family. Some of my passions cost money. They all cost time. And in 2003, as a new mother, I now had a child that needed ALL of my time. I’ve had a lot of abandoned hobbies [...]

SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) seems to get me every year. This year, especially around or after the holidays, I seem to suffer from SAD more than any other time of year. Some days I would rather just curl up in bed, under the covers and stay there. ALL. DAY. LONG. What do you do?

That’s right. Kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint in Nassau, Bahamas. Thank you very much! This is what I want to answer when people ask “How was your cruise?” But I don’t. Because the fact is that this was an excursion off the ship and not the actual cruise. The fabulous cruise will get several posts [...]

I just read the New York Times articles by Hilary Stout titled For Some Parents, Shouting Is the New Spanking. It a good read and references a few people that I just recently met like Devra Runner from Parentopia (she is adorable and looks just like her Twitter avatar – which is what I told [...]

It was on this day two years ago, that my youngest child went under the knife. Laurel, now two, had open heart surgery to correct a heart defect that she was born with called Tetralogy of Fallot. The second that she was rolled into surgery, I felt as if my own heart was ripped out [...]

Her name  is Maria and she is from the Ukraine. When she was 16, she spent some time in a concentration camp. A long time in a concentration camp. Her life was spared because she knew three languages and she was heavily utilized as an interpreter. She lost many friends and some relatives in this [...]

This is a good one for me this week because I am struggling with some personal issues. 1. I learned that it is much easier to have a relationship with friends than with family but that doesn’t mean you should stop trying. Friends come and go. 2. I learned that no matter how much someone [...]

Last night, as we usually do almost daily every week, we went out to dinner as a family. My son picked the place. Well actually he asked if we could go to the restaurant with the hamburger handles. That is Fuddruckers. I love me some Fuddruckers. The husband, not so much but sometimes he is [...]