It's my youngest son birthday

I'm a feedback junkie. Which is unfortunate, because I'm a mom. Moms don't usually get much feedback, except when things go wrong. Like when you have the audacity to skip doing the laundry for óne day, then the feedback starts pouring in. 'Where are my socks, Mom?! Didn't you do my laundry?!' and 'Honey, I...

'Try to do something nice for someone else every day!' I always tell my children. Sometimes you have to wait until an opportunity to do something good presents itself. And this weekend a lovely chance fell right into my lap. Childhood memories Someone had read one of my posts about children's bibles. She'd recognized one...

I was working, blogging away, minding my own business when my eldest daughter declared in triumphant tones: 'Sybil and I aren't the only ones anymore who think you look like professor Trewlawney!' 'Huh?' 'My friend Mary thinks so too!' When I got the first report, about my similarity to this Harry Potter character, I of...

Last night happened, what many had feared: our little nest was cruelly murdered! Scully and Mulder suspect an evil squirrel made his way through the kitchen window, and hid in the cupboard till everyone had gone to bed. Then this evil squirrel made his way to the little nest and had himself a dinner party....

It's become fashionable to create a bucket list. A list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket. Usually there are things on that list like: Swimming with dolphins Traveling through India with just a backpack Making a trip in a hot air balloon Getting in a cage with a pair of...

When it comes to personal style I'ld like to describe mine as Boho Chic. Although my sisters tell me I'm more Hobo than Boho… Sometimes I wonder briefly: 'Am I a yummy mummy?' Then I shrug, and decide: probably not. I'm way too attached to comfort. I love my Uggs and my Birkenstocks, and my...