The Life I Have Imagined

The twins are 11 already! My how the years fly by! They are fifth graders now. They are both killing it at school. They’ve both taken up the...

Which is my favorite month by far, but it's been a crazy year for us all. I started a post back in the winter about the seemingly pressi...

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but I should probably make one to do a better job documenting our lives. I completely skipped blo...

My grandmother passed away peacefully on Saturday.  Just as my other grandmother did four years ago  this week, when I was pregnant with th...

My aunt Laura passed away earlier this week. She was a young fifty-five, always so sweet and cool and chic.  I idolized her when I was ...

Last weekend, DH gave me the day "off" and I spent a whole six hours away from the kids, the most yet. It was nice to get out, b...

It's Halloween today.  Never one of my favorite days, but instead of my usual living vicariously through other people and their children...

We are getting ready to leave for NYC and the Hamptons for a nice long weekend, which couldn't come at a better time.  I'm actual...

I don't know when I'll have my shit together enough to write a decent post, so I figured I might as well post an update since it...

We sadly lost my grandpa Louie last night rather suddenly.  My mom had called me in the afternoon to tell me that he'd taken a sudden t...