Dear Friends, Women, Mothers, and Wives,When you are pregnant, no one, I mean NO ONE, wants to be the bearer of bad news.  Or be the “Debbie Downer.”  I love the saying, “don’t kill the messenger!”  When we grow up with ‘Sound of Music’ and ‘Jerry Maguire’ love story movies, and Hollywood tells us, “Yes that is what life is like.  You will meet the man of your dreams.  Have the perfect wedding.  Make babies.  And it’s fun.  So, so, fun!”  I just have to... Read more...

Below is something I wrote for a contest.  There were “guidelines” for this contest.  The hardest part was the 250 word limit.  I am my father’s daughter, so I cough 250 words.  Also, it was an essay about being a Mother.  Again, I can talk about our kid’s ad nauseam.  So it wasn’t the “what” to say, it was the “how” to ... Read more...

              Like most women, I had a “vision” of what I thought Motherhood was going to be like for me.  Eight years ago, I was six months pregnant and waddling around San Diego, knocking on doctors doors, making friends with their ... Read more...

Like the rest of the country, believe it, right now in south west Florida it is actually  cold.  Similar to other parents, we are at odds with what to do with our kids to keep them happy and entertained.  Since we saw every single movie appropriate for a four and seven year old while they were off for seventeen days, yes 17, one-seven... Read more...

I just HAD a birthday approximately six weeks ago. Also, our daughter is going to HAVE a birthday IN about six weeks.  Nothing monumental, for either one of us.  She can't drive, or drink legally.  I can't collect social security, or join AARP.  Although, something about this year is different.  I can’t quite put my finger on it for me.  ... Read more...

    We live in the beautiful city of Naples, Florida. If you haven't been, it really is one of the nicest, most well groomed and georgeous places on earth. (Well at least 6 months out of the year anyway...) But, let me tell you about one little slice of hell you don't ever, ever,.....ever want to experience with young children; the local Costco. First of all there is only one in a 50 mile radius, and it was designed as if it was one of five in the area and they did not want to overbuild. O... Read more...

It’s silly to say it was a surprise.  Almost stupid really.  Unplanned?  I don’t think we can even get away with that.  As a married adult having unprotected sex in your mid-twenties, you know what you’re doing when you’re doing it.  Duh, most likely we’re making a baby?  It was all so irresistible.  All so romantic.  There we were, our eyes locked, lips millimeters apart.... Read more...

It was June of 05’, getting to be summer time, although you wouldn’t know the difference.  The seasons don’t change all too much here in Naples, FL.  There is hot.  Hotter.  And, “I swear I am on the equator, hurt myself, hot.” Thank goodness, for a larger stretch of, “perfect seventy five degree weather.”  The kind that makes us say, when we watch... Read more...

How is it that we get so blessed? We find the "perfect mate." Or should I say, the perfect mate for ourselves. We fall in love. The sickly kind, where you force yourself NOT to call each other. So not to look so eager, too interested. Absolutely, completely, disgustingly smitten.And then, the proposal, the wedding, celebration, jubilation. The honeymoon, sleeping til' noon. Decompressing, and then, regressing.It's inevitable. There you are, in opposite corners. The gloves are on... Read more...