Thrift Store Earrings of Hope

Years ago I was SURE that I didn't want kids.  NEVER.  NEVER EVER EVER.*   I didn't have a motherly instinct. I certainly didn't want to bring another life into the world that I could screw up. I was also in a series of relationships that made me question everything about myself and wonder why …

I Saw This Family at the Dollar Store

When you troll the dollar stores for years in search of paper plates and straws and cat toys and party favors and completely inedible foods, you never even walk down the toy aisle. Except when you are looking for your nephews and then you think LET'S JUST KEEP LIKING LIGHT UP STICKS FOREVER, can we …

Things We Laugh About LATER: The Sickness

These babes o' mine have not really been sick in their 2-plus years outside of my belly.  So we've had a killer run avoiding the yuck. HOWEVER. There is a first time for everything and we belly-flopped into the great unknown world of bodily functions that we had previously only heard tell of from others …