My two weeks are rapidly coming to an end. I had big ideas for my time alone. It would involve many, many ambitious activities like filing 5 boxes of paperwork and copious amounts of laundry and sorting out the toys for the purpose of eliminating much but the Lego as that’s all they are playing [...]

I recently followed a link, from twitter or Facebook (who knows), and read with interest, this article on the Huffington Post, entitled Divorce’s Dirty Little Secret. Go read it – then come back! I knew this secret already. I have friends who are single parents and I fully admit that when they have their time [...]

I meant to write a birthday post on his actual birthday, the last day of 2010, and I got sidetracked, of course. By life, by a house viewing, whatever.  But here it is, late. Oliver turned 5. We haven’t actually had his party yet, which is what happens when you have a birthday that has [...]