Helloooooo out there! I’m that lady who used to blog. I do miss it terribly; I’ve just been terrible about finding time to fit it into my daily life lately. In the spirit of resolutions, I’ll try to work on that in 2014. I wasn’t going to do a 2013 recap, but as I started…
The Deep Stuff
Farewell to our Fridays
I find it a little fitting that the whole world (well, at least the mothers who blog world) is seemingly consumed this week with the hubbub surrounding the 10-year followup story on the so-called Opt Out Generation just as I’m about to go through a working mom milestone myself. Ove these past 5+ years, I’ve…
Family Volunteering Night at Second Harvest
I’ve written before about my admiration for Second Harvest, our food bank here in Central Florida. The Food for Thought tour I took there was one of those life-changing moments that made me realize just how deep and serious the hunger problem is here in our community (like so many communities across the country), particularly…
What I’ll Always Remember About This Christmas
There’s just something magical about a 4-year-old. When you’re 4 years old at Christmas time, there’s magic everywhere you look. Beautifully decorated trees and houses. Twinkling lights throughout the neighborhood. A month filled with Christmas crafts at school, writing letters to Santa (and the Blue Devil, naturally) and a daily countdown to The Big Day….
Cousins First, Friends Forever
I’ve started and trashed this post about 10 times over the past two-and-a-half weeks. As many of you know, my cousin Rachel died on Dec. 1, after a nearly five-year battle against cancer. She was 34 years old. She was a wife, a mother of two young children, a daughter, a sister to six brothers…