We’ve just returned from six days in the White Mountains, our end-of-summer family fling. I am exhausted and pleased. It was a good and very much needed break for all of us.
Pics and more to come, but now I need to go buy milk and something for dinner. Something easy.

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Wishing the best sister (mine) the most wonderful birthday. May the year ahead be eventful and full of delights.

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Today when I was buying supplies for our upcoming family vacation, I had to pick up some diet pop. I’m not finicky about brands of cola … Pepsi or Coke will do equally as well (though I gravitate slightly toward the blue of Pepsi). When my hand reached out I nabbed a twelve-pack of mini Diet Cokes… […]

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I had one of those days I know I will look back on with tender longing. Nothing spectacular happened, just life at home with my kids. A lazy summer day. The girls were in bed with me when I woke (Dex already up and gone to work). We eased into the day. I’d made a […]

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I don’t want to let my previous post stand without adding a clarification. In all fairness, I have not told Dex that I am so near the edge. I am certain he hasn’t read about it here. [He doesn’t read my blog although he is welcome to. He just doesn’t.] I know I need to […]

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I mean, how am I supposed to say we can’t take this anymore and no more waiting for what ifs and maybes and not another year, I can’t do another year, there is no way without bringing my whole world crashing down on me?
Because I can always convince myself to push the line forward just […]

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I have to finally admit that I’ve hit the wall.
What else can I say? My ability to cope, to soldier on, to muster my flagging energy and enthusiasm has dwindled to all-time lows.
It’s nothing specific. Nothing is different this week than it was last week or the week or month before. There’s no new crisis. […]

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Forty-one years ago I was born.
This is for me:

 p.s. I have had a really good day.

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