I sit here with a yellow paper on my desk titled “Parent Brag Sheet.”  Normally, I’m all over, and all about, bragging on my kiddos.  I wrote… Read more “Quaking in my Boots”

Recently, a family very close to us was approved to be foster parents with the hope of adopting a baby.  Within weeks of their approval a two… Read more “Some Tears and a Whole Lot of Pride”

This past weekend we had a houseguest.  Zach’s friend didn’t want to go away for his last weekend of his high school years so the boys asked… Read more “The Last of the Firsts and the Firsts of the Firsts”

So it seems my parental prowess from last week has slipped a bit.  Last week I told the story of how proud I was that I kept… Read more “The Half Assed Company”

Maybe it was because I was highly under caffeinated.  Maybe it was because this morning I was out and about far earlier than I have been in… Read more “Just a Blur”

Flashback to August 2000… I had a five and a half year-old little boy, an almost three-year-old little boy and a nine month-old baby girl.  Zach was… Read more “The Class of 2014”

It’s not often that I feel I have the right to say, “I just had a perfect parenting moment.”  OK, so maybe it wasn’t perfect, but it… Read more “A Moment Worth Noting”

A year and a half ago I posted a blog called I Married a Jersey Redneck about Stan, his upbringing and how vastly different it was from mine.  Well,… Read more “Rednecks”

I rarely, if ever, talk religion or politics to anyone.  I just don’t.  Not because I don’t have a stand on my beliefs but because I’m not… Read more “Who Am I to Judge?”

Yesterday I received a gift that I wasn’t expecting.  Have you ever had one of those days that you start off dreading but come to realize was… Read more “That Won’t Get Me a Good Eulogy”