“A true friend is someone who makes you feel better than you think you are.” - Me
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. - Alice Walker
Why only one day for Mothers?
I’m devoting the whole month of May to women everywhere, and mothers in particular, for we have one of the toughest tasks in the world - raising the next generation.
"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." - Anonymous
“Good boy!” My toddler says those two words like they are magic. He points at himself proudly. “I no hit Sienna. Cookie.” He waits for his reward. But I just look at him with a note of dismay, so he adds another magic word. “Please.”
"Things do not change; we change." - Henry David Thoreau
Hello all! I am writing from that outback territory in time, space and sanity called Mommy Land. It’s a blend of the Twilight Zone and Good Housekeeping turned bad, along with a touch of Mommy Amnesia.
“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”- George Burns
Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you. - Oscar Wilde
My bounty is as boundless as the sea,
My love as deep; the more I give to thee,
The more I have, for both are infinite.
- William Shakespeare, Romeo & Juliet
It’s Valentine’s Day. I want to talk about romance, but I don’t know what it is anymore.
“Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.” - Michael Levine
Driving home from a long day at work, I was imagining the blissful greeting from my beloved children. But the actual scene I came home to was a different story. Sienna, my 9-month-old, was crying. When I picked her up, instead of gurgling a happy hello, she baptized me in the carrot puree she’d had for dinner. Alessio, my 2-year-old, tried to snatch Sienna away so that he could squiggle into my arms. “Sienna down!” he demanded.
