Publishing a draft I wrote back in September because it’s hilarious. Since the moment Caitlyn arrived in our family, life has been more exciting and colorful. She carries exuberance with her everywhere she goes. She turned 4 recently and I grew a little wistful on her birthday, thinking of how many of her crazy antics she is leaving behind as […]
Category: It’s Laugh or Cry
The Goose Won
On the day after we arrived in Oregon, we were still living out of a hotel and I took Mackenzie to a nearby park while the littler ones napped. We drove around and, spotting a huge lake with a path around the outside, we parked the car and got out. We took about five steps towards the lake before we […]
Furnaces: 99.94% Effective
I’ll be 30 years old in April and as far as I can recall, I have had a working furnace every week of my life. Except this last one. So really, I have nothing to complain about. In fact, in college, my husband and I lived in an old hotel-style apartment which was situated directly above the noisiest, most vigorous […]