I'm a 40-year-old soccer mom to two little girls desperately seeking sanity and hiding from the Barbie Pop-Tarts. I work as 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, one fish, and too much laundry. Estrogen and wine flow freely at our house.
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 [...]
One Picture Too Many
You want me to smile one more time? You’ve got to be kidding me.
My mother-in-law took these pictures Saturday night. The girls are modeling the hubby’s costumes his grandmother Marguerite made for him when he was a little boy. She was a master seamstress and made all of my mother-in-law’s and her sister’s clothes [...]









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