Adam sent this to me yesterday via his phone with the message: "3 blocks away." I recognized the intersection immediately. My friend, Kristen lives at the end of that street and yes, they had to evacuate their home and are safe and staying with friends. (Thank you, God!) The story is the same all around us. My nieces in San ...
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It was so much easier when they were little.
Back then I just had to worry about feeding and clothing and bathing and nurturing and kissing boo-boos and keeping the cat from being choked. (=D) Today there are fires burning everywhere in So Cal. Everywhere. There is a layer of ash on everything outside and we have been told to keep our windows shut tight. I don't think any fire ...
Learning to say “I love you”
It's funny how our roles have reversed. I worry about making her meals and making sure she eats. I help her dress.I take her places. Yesterday we spent hours at Armstrong's Nursery. (I think I inherited my love for gardening from her.) We walk and examine every beautiful bloom. We are admiring the pictures of the bulbs and deciding together ...
Drama Mama
I did the math.(probably because I had math on the brain this week. =D) I have been a Drama Mom for twenty-two years. (I know. I've probably been a Drama Queen for much, much longer, but that's not important right now. =D) And I still clearly remember the moment Amy toddled across the stage in a tutu and wings as an angel in the church ...
Because I live in a Parallel Universe (in which ninety is the new fifty)
I often get asked these two questions: "Do you still have family in Cuba?" and "Have you ever been back?"The answers are yes and no. In August of 2002 we hosted a family reunion here in Mission Viejo. Three of my mom's four siblings were able to come - two of them traveling from Cuba and one from Miami. There ...
Portrait of a tortured artist
My life is busy in the best possible way. It is busy with people and projects. Some of the busyness is imposed from the outside, but every now and then I go on a creative bender and my life gets crazy-busy. (are there support groups for this??) I homeschool my two kids and I cook and I scrapbook and I blog and I design and I just ...
Aren’t I the lucky one?
I write a lot about my husband. And he truly is as wonderful as he seems. But let's just give credit where credit is due, shall we? He has become the man he is today thanks to this amazing woman:To my sweet MIL (mother-in-love =D), Nancy: Happy, Happy Birthday and . . . THANKS! "For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or ...
Math inferiority
I am an Artist.Right-brained.Creative.Spontaneous.Random. My kids are all those things, too. They are also comedians. (Jon added the theory of relativity when he saw I was taking pictures - cracked me up. =D) But part of educating them means doing left-brain functions, like math. (heavy, heavy sigh) My friend Pam is a Math ...
Love/Hate
I hate it when he's gone. Hate it. I have trouble sleeping when he's gone, and so I pile up pillows on "his side" in an attempt to fool myself that he is there. It doesn't work. So I struggle with the insomnia. I tell myself that because it's just me and the kids we can just go out and get a burger for dinner and I don't have ...
on fear and stickiness.
Isn't this a cool piece of art? Eric got it for me a couple of years ago and I just love it. That has always been my "mantra." (well, technically, I'm not really sure what a mantra is, but I know it's a form of self-talk, so just go with me on this one. =D) "I am Fearless."Okay. It's not really true. Or at least it wasn't. I ...
