Watching The Movie Where The Wild Things Are With My Boys

My excitement to see the film, Where The Wild Things Are, was deflated when I read some mixed reviews about it. I was not ready to suffer through another children’s film where my children and I leave the theater moody and quiet without any desire to discuss the film. The film, Cloudy With a Chance of...

Do I have Swine Flu or Not?

Yesterday I went with the boys to get their flu shots and to catch up on well check appointments where they got reminded that candy is not ok and veggies matter. Brevitt is in the 90th percentile for height and 50th percentile for weight, my tall skinny kid. As the boys sat there whimpering about their...

All Parents Need Time Off from Their Children

I have been living with a man and three boys for nine years now and I clearly have been in denial. It is not that I don’t love them completely but I sometimes feel as though I am living in prehistoric times. Waking up to a honking, tooting, furry beast makes marriage feel a bit archaic at times. Were we...