The Life I Have Imagined

I'm one month post-op for my total hysterectomy (and just turned 48 last week) and feel amazing. I had been trying to get my OB/gyne , w...

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...

Written in early 2022… Well I survived colonscopy #3 (in five years) recently with a clean bill of health. Man those preps suck.  This is th...

The twins just turned 10! They are each five feet tall. Not too bad for two preemies who came home weighing barely five pounds each.  They a...

Happy Summer!! It's been exactly 25 years since I started my first summer on Cape Cod. Boy that makes me feel old. Spending the whole su...

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 first got braces some 30 years ago (when I was 12) and had them for 2 1/2 years. The old school metal kind with the headgear (aka the dev...

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...

Well hello there.  I had started a back to school post back in September, but then life got really crazy and it didn't happen.  The kid...

Summer seems to start earlier every year, so we've been trying to make the most of May.  My step father is still fighting his cancer...

The year has been a busy one for everyone in our family.  It's been good for us, but rough having both DH's mom and my step-dad wit...

I thought I'd share a few things that made this year better, easier, more interesting... (in no particular order, and I'm sure I...

So I've totally bombed on the blog this year, like nearly a complete epic fail.  So four months later...  I tried to post about the Ham...

I haven't been much of a blogger lately, but I have been slogging it out for awhile.  I'm entering my seventh year, though it has b...

The struggle is real... Our babies turn four next weekend and we'll all be off to the city for a packed long b-day weekend.  We...

And long enough that I've actually been back to work for a week. When I left my full time job 4 1/2 year ago, I had no idea what the ...

The kids started at a new school last week, which they seem to like, but today was their first "full" day, since they did two hou...

Some of you may remember my post last year about Deanna Fei and the blow up at AOL.  She did what writers do and has written a book about...

I am lucky and have a lovely MIL.  She is sweet and loves us and lives on the other side of the planet.  She came to live with us for a few...