The Divine Miss Mommy

On March 29, 2007, I gave birth to my third child, Laurel. She is a wonderfully bright and active child who is about to turn two at the launch of this blog. The next day doctors told us that she had a heart defect. In fact, she had four separate heart defects culminating in [...]

I am borderline ridiculous a nickname freak when it comes to my family. I have nicknames for everybody and many times each person has numerous nicknames.  Some embarrassing. Some appropriate. Almost always silly but most of them are pretty catchy. This has worked well for me when I forget people’s names because I can accurately [...]