Tag: <span>mom</span>

I love things that make my life easier. Wet hair pulled back in a pony tail.  Paper plates in a pinch.  The lady who offers to return my shopping cart…

Kids and Treasures

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

And now for something completely different.  A series of 100-word “postcards” from my weekend solo trip to New York City. I don’t have a sippy cup.  I’m out of wipes. …

Thoughts and Musings

I love the name Matilda.  I love the name Jane.  Slap those two names together on the label of one of the world’s most adorable girl’s clothing lines, and you…

Kids and Treasures

“Happiness is different from pleasure.  Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.”  – George Bernard Shaw I find this quotation recorded in teenage girl bubble letters…

Thoughts and Musings

I checked out an audiobook from my library last week.  Two minutes later, I rested it on the trunk of my car while I buckled my daughter in her car…

Thoughts and Musings