Posts Tagged ‘mommy memoirs’

I just want to say that way back in 2007 when I posted here that we were moving, I didn’t expect to still be saying it in 2009.
We decided to have Peter move up there while we waited for the kids to finish school.
Then we decided that since we were so close we would wait [...]

Peyton - Will you get me a glass of water?
Me - Get it yourself.
Peyton - pleeeeease, mama?  I’m tired today *makes very put-upon face*
Me - (grumble grumble grumble but gets up to get the requested beverage) You know if you just pull up a chair you can get a drink whenever you want
Peyton - (mumble [...]

I am packing for a trip.
Just me. No kids, no Peter.
I haven’t gone on a trip away from my family in over eleven years!  The closest I came was a weekend in Orlando, during which I was still only an hour from home at any given point in time.
This trip is totally untethered.  I am [...]

It’s hard when you come eye to eye with traits in your personality you wish didn’t exist. Maybe you know they’re there and you work around them…sometimes better able to control them than others.
Friends and I have talked about the effort it takes to teach our kids, and especially our ones who are sick, to [...]

I’m only going to say this once: I’m totally legal, I’m a citizen! No one’s getting deported.  What we’re doing is getting DE-ported.
This post is about Peyton.
July 14, 2006 saw us here

Peyton looking petrified and me trying my best not to.  That was the bed that she laid in as they wheeled her away to [...]