No one tells you about nodding, but really, it is the most helpful of parenting skills. It gets you through long involved conversations about the minutia of swim practice, or the ongoing debate about chairs and flute I or flute II. It gets you through conversations with other parents where they go on & on about their kids doing something with kids ( Read more... )

On the work front, our office made budget today by a razor thin $229! We knew we would reach that goal before the end of the year, but we really really wanted it to happen NOW! (So far only 8 offices have made budget, and we're the only one in our region expected to reach that milestone.) We spent the afternoon celebrating with awful booze. We ( Read more... )

I'm on my third latte of the morning if that tells you anything. Here's some notes on the week ( Read more... )

It's a beautiful Saturday here: blue skies, sunshine & a long list of stuff to do ( Read more... )

As any parent will tell you, car rides are informational gold mines. I can learn more about what's going on with my girls in a 5 minute car ride than I can in an hour long face to face chat ( Read more... )

So tonight we move on to the next phase in the mom gig: High School Curriculum Orientation ( Read more... )

Once, many years ago when I was newly married & living in D.C., I received a frantic call from my Mother who proceeded to spend the next 5 minutes or so tearfully telling me how she had dropped a gallon of milk in the kitchen & what a big mess it was before I said to her, "Mom, did you call me to CRY over spilt milk?" There was dead silence on the ( Read more... )

Neko Case was amazing last night. One of the best shows I've seen this year. Amazing voice, great backing band - especially great was her backup singer Kelly Hudson who has great stage presence, a saucy attitude & a voice that blended perfectly with Neko's. She was hot like burning too. Bonus! The Owl surrounding the video projection backdrop ( Read more... )

Yeah. So.

There is NO JOY in telling your 11 year old daughter that her favorite band has broken up. None.

RIP PATD. Nice job of breaking my kid's heart. (And mine too.)

( We'll always have St. Louis? )

The girls & their friends are in the front yard, playing with the Slip & Slide. It's really not hot enough for it, but that hasn't deterred them at all ( Read more... )