Paper Doll Tales Posts

Sit.  Stay at home, mom. Stay. I chose to be a stay-at-home mom.  I willingly gave up grading vocab quizzes, rousing snoozing students from drool-slicked desktops, signing crumpled hall passes,…

Thoughts and Musings

I’ve taken my last morning beach walk of the week.  Today’s tally?  Three baby horseshoe crab shells, two gaping fish heads, one spiny sea urchin, scads of tinkling cockle shells.…

Wanderings and Travel

Summer Vacation (still capitalizing those all-important words) included a few dark (and increasingly stifling) hours last night when a thunderstorm zapped the power on our island.  Like a Fourth of…

Kids and Treasures

It’s finally arrived: Summer Vacation.  (Necessary to slap capital letters on those words.)  While I’m (not) busy this week sipping sweet tea on a South Carolina beach, three of my…

Thoughts and Musings

I actually get excited to use sunscreen on Little Friend.  No, I’m not thrilled about the squirming, screeching, writhing beast that my precious little girl turns into any time I…

Kids and Treasures

This is a cool place.  I mean cool.  The type of place where I survey the other diners and feel itchy in my clothes because I’m not clad in well-worn…

Wanderings and Travel