Happy Frickin’ Valentine’s Day

(Love on our Wedding Day: September 26th, 1998) Last year I wrote about Valentine’s Day and guess what? One year later, it still sucks! I can think of no worse day than Monday to express ones love and so we celebrated a steak and potato Valentines Day Dinner last night. The evening before I had opened...

Valentine’s Day Sucks

Wade and I sat down to our Valentine’s Eve dinner and as we sat there with the candles flickering in red seeded glass hurricane lamps, the boys raced around us in circles personifying Tucker Hibbert going for the SnoCross Gold in the X-Games. Wade and I looked deeply into each others exhausted eyes...

Teaching Your Husband How To Treat You Right

Two years ago I sat my husband and three boys down and informed them that never, ever again will I endure the deep disappointment of each uneventful special occasion. And furthermore, I added, just because my birthday falls on May 9th does not allow you to, “cleverly”, lump my birthday and...