We just got a kitten. And when I say ‘we’ got a kitten, I really mean ‘I’ got a kitten. I am the one who will do the lion’s share (no pun intended) of the work to get this kitten acclimated to our house and our family and our other cat. I will be the one who...
I don’t watch chick flicks. I am not usually one for sappy and sentimental. That’s not to say that I don’t get sappy and sentimental from time to time, I just don’t want to watch other people being sappy and sentimental for 90 minutes straight. The...
We had to kick my in-laws out on Christmas Eve. My husband’s parents live 3 hours away and arrived late at our house on the night before Christmas Eve to stay for a few nights. We had to tell them to leave the next morning. Pack it all back up and head home....
Almost always, that feeling comes: I wish I hadn’t said yes to going out. There’s that voice that tells me I should be putting on my cozies and sitting like a slug on the couch and watching tv with my spouse. It whispers that I will have to talk and be social...
I remember the cigarette stained toilet seat in the bathroom of the cheap hotel and the 5 foot mounds of dirty snow outside. I recall my nostrils freezing the second we stepped outside to get dinner at a greasy bar that ended up having delicious burgers and...
