While making dinner one night, my then-12-year-old daughter came into the kitchen and informed me she had the sniffles and was sneezing. I did a quick inventory to make sure it was nothing serious. Cheeks a nice shade of rosy red, not flushed or pale; hand to forehead – no fever. “Say Ahh” – tonsils looked normal. By my unscientific mom standards, she seemed fine, so I told her … [Read more...]
Mama’s Turn: I Casually Promise To…
It’s a new year, and that means time to make New Year’s resolutions; which most likely are all just the things you wanted to achieve last year but didn’t get to. Seriously, who the heck came up with the idea of resolutions? Your life doesn’t change just because you flip the calendar. Yet, every year people will make ambitious, unrealistic resolutions that they … [Read more...]
HALLOWEEN: THEN vs. NOW!
As I was digging through my garage the other day trying to find my boxes of Halloween decorations, I started to reminisce about the good ol’ days. When I was a kid, decorating for Halloween consisted of throwing a sheet over the light post to make it look like a ghost. Nowadays, you practically need a storage unit to hold all the faux tombstones and skeletons who dance or moan … [Read more...]
Hurry Up and WAIT!
On a recent trip to a local amusement park with my family, I had my first experience with virtual lines. Instead of being forced to stare at the back of some stranger’s head for 55 minutes as I inched my way to the front to board what inevitably turns out to be a 30-second thrill ride, I could spend my time meandering through an air-conditioned lobby looking at … [Read more...]
Mama’s Turn: Take the Key and LOCK Her Up
Remember the old nursery rhyme you would sing out of tune while holding hands out like a bridge so other kids would walk under, until the bridge fell and you “locked up” the person you trapped? Well, it seems some smart grownups decided to take that idea and run with it, but without the creepy singing. Thus, was born the idea of THE ESCAPE ROOM! Okay, I’m sure that is not how … [Read more...]