Feb 20, 2012

So as you know, we got a new puppy. I’ve been keeping the stories on the DL because, well, there’s something embarrassing. No, not her puppy butt breath (although that is completely repulsive), it’s, um … her name. For some reason, when you adopt or rescue a dog they always have the worst names. I don’t know if it’s because...

Feb 14, 2012

Now that I’m older, I find that I hate Valentine’s Day. Let me rephrase that: I really hate Valentine’s Day it annoys me because it’s just one more on the very long list of things I need to do and spend money on when I really should be using the money for something else. I’m really beginning to despise the commercialization of...

Feb 9, 2012

  I’m just going to lay it on the line: family meal time sucks at our house. At the beginning of any give week I have all these grand plans about getting organized and planning out meals days (or weeks!) ahead of time so that I’m not scrounging around last minute or ordering take out all the time. And then it happens. Life. Busy schedules and the...

Feb 8, 2012

Dear Ella: It’s your fourth birthday and I can’t believe it. I know it’s so cliche to say that, but it’s true. Something happens when you have a child that turns it up to “11″ on the time warp machine. Your life becomes flashes, glimpses of memories that you recall with a smile or from a smell or a by seeing a photo with a...

Feb 6, 2012

I know what you’ve been up to and you’re busted. Don’t try to deny it. You’ve been coveting your neighbor’s mobile phone and now it’s time to stop. You no longer need to keep up with the “Joneses” because now you can be a Jones. You don’t have to choose between the “cool factor” and functionality because Sprint has an awesome offering. (Do...