There was the Summer of Margaritas and the Summer I Swore Not to Complain about the Heat. Summers spent in other cities. Summers spent in the pool with Sun In, baby oil and tinfoil. (Those summers were in high school. OK, maybe a couple in college, too.) There was the Summer I Stood Pregnant in […]

Friday night was star-kissed, and not in the tuna kind of way. We were invited to a Diamondbacks game with the staff of Sophie’s pre-school. Sophie was thrilled. She melted into Ms. Janice, her pre-school teacher, and while none of us paid much attention to the baseball game, we all enjoyed an unseasonably cool night, […]

We  had a milestone yesterday. Sophie punctuated for the first time. I’m so proud. I’m a big fan of punctuation (part of the whole Nerd Alert thing). I spend my days changing commas to dashes, debating the overuse of the parenthetical reference (I’m a big offender myself), putting writers on semi-colon diets and yelling at […]

I really don’t have anything against Sophie’s speech therapist at school (except her not-super grammar). She’s the one who went to bat for the kids when the topic of the 90 to 1 kindergartener-to-adult ratio at lunch recess came up, and I know she loves Sophie. But when I emailed her this morning to see […]

  “Take my picture!” Sophie demanded first thing this morning. I really mean first thing. It was 6. Between the big girl bed and summer’s approach, there will be no more sleeping in — not for a while, at least. Sophie was sitting on the floor next to Rosy, thumb in her mouth, rubbing the dog’s fur. […]

Sophie’s annual IEP meeting was this morning. For once, I was at school early, which wasn’t hard, since Ray had to get the girls to school. I even made it to Starbucks first, and chuckled to myself that really, all we needed to write in Sophie’s IEP plan was that school should prepare her to someday […]

In case you didn’t waste enough time on Facebook today, check out this craft porn graciously shared by Georganne at Frances: www.juniorsociety.com (I tried to buy the URL www.craftporn.com the other day — hey, why not, it can gather dust with www.martharexia.com — but someone already nabbed it and parked at as a wordpress blog. […]

This past Friday night, a group of mostly middle-aged women gathered to play poker. For most of us, it was the first time. So what do mostly middle-aged women talk about over poker chips, cream puffs and blood orange martinis? From what I recall, facial hair. Other things, too, I’m sure, but the two champagne margaritas […]

It’s past time to rearrange Sophie’s room, mix things up a bit.  I’ve got a conundrum. Do I get rid of the changing table? I love Sophie’s changing table. It isn’t really a changing table, it’s a wooden chest with a changing pad screwed on, one of those clever ideas you get out of a magazine […]

Nerd alert! I think the Book Character Parade might be my favorite annual event at school, and I’m guessing  that after this morning, Annabelle and Sophie agree. It took four separate shopping stops and a lot of planning to secure the materials, but I think we did a fine job among the three of us of […]