The Divine Miss Mommy

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?

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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 of its own.
But kidnapped [...]

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 of [...]

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 [...]