how i won the nightly homework battle

When my oldest daughter started bringing homework home (i think it was the third grade) our school nights became a battleground. My daughter would bring out every arsenal within her power…and it was exhausting. I dreaded homework. My daughter didn’t understand homework was non-non-damn-no-negationable. She wanted me to do it. I didn’t want to. She…

at the bottom of the hill

from my daughter’s new high school, is a HUGE nursery. Andy’s Creekside Nursery is a privately owned & operated business on Rocky Ridge Road in Vestavia. #buylocal… Here is the problem, i usually drop my daughter off at 8:00am, guess what time Andy’s opens?! yes, 8:ooam. i have an incredible weakness for nursery’s…and i have…

i put the cat food in the birdcage to keep the opossum…

…from eating the bowl clean. it worked for a few days, but the possum comes every night about midnight (like a werewolf) & he found the food after three days. sadly, i wake up to the sounds of the starving cats, weak from hunger, because they only have food in their bowl from 6am until 11ish…

you stand out

the mandolin with the different color is wrong…do you think the Maker designed that one odd-colored mandolin to be better or worse than all the others? i suppose the multitude can decide. i know it a reflection…just making a point. no matter how differently we look from one another, at least its nice to know…

In honor of love lost

My daughter had a wonderful friend, he lived with his mother & grandmother in Bermuda. He called me mom & Sophie called Judah’s mother, mom. both of us moms knew how important their relationship was. i was in the kitchen, one night, trying to make a snack…Sophie walks into the kitchen & i was aware…