July 2014 archive

Giving Up Vacation Gladly

Before I had children, vacations for me generally meant lying on a tropical beach, baking in the sun (my twenty-year-old self was kinda honey badger about wrinkles – I really didn’t give a…), drinking strawberry daiquiris (my twenty-year-old self was also kinda honey badger about counting calories), and doing absolutely positively nothing.  Nada.  Not a […] Read more…

Supreme Court Sucker Punch

As parents we make the rules in our house: in bed by nine, no dessert until you’ve eaten your dinner, no hitting your brother with the wiffle ball bat – you know, the basics.  Because let’s face it, even on the best of days raising a family is managed chaos and craziness. Can you imagine […] Read more…