I'm a 41-year-old mom to two girls ages 8 and 5 desperately seeking sanity. I'm an editor and social media coordinator in business publishing. My husband, a former beach bartender, founded MouseCalls Computer Services here in Nashville. We have two mutts, three crabs, two frogs, and too much laundry. Estrogen and wine flow freely here, so kick off your shoes and come on in!
Halloween
Slow Down! (Gasp) Don’t Run! (Gasp)
I watched nervously from front lawns as Miss A ran after her big sister and her friends. She navigated her way through shadowy yards and down dimly lit pathways leading to the candy mecca at each friendly glowing front porch. She ran ahead over and over, leaves crunching beneath her feet, always wanting to keep up [...]
My Two Pumpkins
Just a reminder to take lots of pictures of your little ones this weekend. I figure we only have a few more years until we enter the dangerously teetering on the edge of slutty costume stage.
Miss A’s first Halloween, 2005.
I have saved this sweet outfit and it’s stored in one of those “special bins” [...]
Scar Your Kids For Life This Halloween
My girls have been talking about Halloween for months now, or just weeks really. It just seems like months.
I’m a little sad because after two years of shimmery ethereal costumes this is the first year Miss C wants to be genuinely ghoulish. She picked out a fairly hideous skull mask at the dollar store and [...]
And Now I Know What She Thinks Of Me
The other night at dinner we were discussing Halloween costumes because that’s what you do when you are 4 and 7 and it’s August and 90 degrees out and despite all this Michael’s has set out talking life-size witches and devoted an entire aisle to Halloween and you’ve bought a gummy candy eyeball and a [...]










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