A. is outside with Cubby.  The MiL is in the kitchen making dinner.  Charlie is asleep on the couch beside me. I am drinking a gin and tonic...

Being a mother is challenging wherever you live.  I, for one, would never want to try to wrangle my children in a confining city apartment. ...

Yesterday's post --which is entirely too depressing to leave up any longer, so we're changing the subject--made me think of the phra...

I'm sure you all remember this only partially-in-jest comment about Cubby breaking me by refusing to go to bed, reducing me to a sobbin...

My parents asked me yesterday to send them some photos that they could print out and send to older relatives who don't use computers and...

Small town America doesn't get much better than festivals centered around agricultural events.  Our local festival is a wheat harvest fe...

There are a lot of babies around lately.  My own, obviously, who will be three weeks old tomorrow and is so far an absolute delight in all r...