So I had a small nervous breakdown the other morning. As I mentioned in my holiday letter, Elfie has been getting "mean girled" at school recently. She's in first grade, and even though I know kids are capable of this type of thing starting at birth, it's been depressing because her school really focuses on [...]

So every year, for about the past fifteen years, I've written a holiday letter. It's kind of how this whole blogging thing got started. As you might imagine, my letters weren't exactly laundry lists of the fantastic trips we'd taken or stories about how the kids came home with "Student of the Week" bumper stickers. [...]

I have a very distinct memory of an evening during grad school, oh so many moons ago, when I was having dinner at my apartment with my then-and-no-longer significant other.  We were trying to eat, but the phone kept ringing with calls from distressed girlfriends who were in the middle of some trauma or drama [...]

So I haven't been dead or under a rock.  I've just been in Denver (And, no, that isn't some backhanded comment about Denver, which would be lovely even if you were somehow under a rock.  Dead, not so much.).  I still can't quite believe it myself, but I was on a real live girls' weekend.  [...]

So at the risk of bringing everyone down, I'm having a rough day.  Couple of days.  Actually, make that a couple of weeks.Even if you know me personally, you most likely have no idea that I've been having a rough time.  Because that's what I do.  I just power through.  I take the kids to [...]

I went out the other night and met some friends for a drink.  This was, I'm sad to say, one of the more exciting events of late, due to the fact that my life is incredibly boring.  But here's what made it even more irregular:  I was sans husband, it was a school night, and [...]

I originally wrote this for another website, but they've changed formats and appear to have gone entirely video.  Which I honestly don't get because watching vlogs kind of annoys me (and with that statement, I've just sealed my fate and will be vlogging within the week).Anyway, my daughter's birthday was at the beginning of July.  [...]

Dear T&G,I still can't believe you're going to be saddled with our whole life in just one week.{Backstory:  our friends are adopting a toddler and his newborn sister -- they get the girl tomorrow and the boy at the end of the week.}There's no one who deserves this more than you do, and those are [...]

All things considered, I think I'm holding it together remarkably well.I have a lot on my plate this week.  I actually feel funny complaining because everyone has a lot on their plate this week.  And every week.  I was at yet another kid's birthday party the other day (although this one was quite pleasant due [...]