I’m leaving my littlest guy behind for 11 days soon while I take my big boys to Sicily and then the Amalfi Coast. We were supposed to be heading to Egypt with my mom and sister but the unrest and political changes in Egypt made me rethink our decision to cruise the Nile and visit [...]
February 3, 2011 – 10:45 pm
A family friend from my childhood forwarded this picture to me a few days ago and I loved it for so many reasons… It was taken at my childhood home in Visalia outside by the pool… It was June and my mother’s birthday… My father was still alive and wearing his new cool 70′s glasses [...]
January 31, 2011 – 8:31 am
I just got my 15 year old out the door in a hurry. Mac is talking in his crib and I need to get my 6th grader up in a few minutes but I have a moment to myself and I’m going to grab it. I need to regroup and take a deep breath and [...]
January 22, 2011 – 8:26 pm
Tomorrow we show the house for the first time. It’s not even formally on the market. I’ve been working on getting the house ready to list for weeks and am tired. And then, just when I think everything is finally perfect and ready for tomorrow morning’s showing, Mac opens the spice cabinet and unscrews the [...]
January 11, 2011 – 12:27 pm
Tomorrow morning Ty Gurney, Mac and I jump on a plane for Fresno, California so I can make a book club event in Visalia Wednesday night and then Thursday morning we race down to Southern California for 4 more days of book events. I’ve got a very fun 5 pm Happy Hour for my readers [...]
Mac has become very busy. Extremely busy. He loves to walk and run, explore and pull things apart. He loves to push things closed, too, including all doors, and sometimes his fingers are in between. I’ve been trying to keep Mac out of trouble by letting him help me whenever he can. There are some [...]
