From the monthly archives:

April 2008

Periodicals are the window to the soul

April 30, 2008

Look what came in the mail today. If my marriage could be summed up in a picture, then this would be the one. And yes, that is a magazine called “Cheaper Than Dirt!”. It bet it shares a lot of crossover subscribers with “Vogue”. Except “Vogue” doesn’t use an exclamation point in its title. But [...]

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I got a hold of some bad information

April 29, 2008

I just finished watching American Idol. I AM SHOCKED THAT SOMETHING I READ ON THE INTERNET TURNED OUT TO NOT BE TRUE. SHOCKED. Of course maybe Jason read my post and decided to go with “Forever in Blue Jeans”. Or maybe Paula was the one who posted the information I read yesterday because clearly she [...]

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Random thoughts come in threes

April 29, 2008

Yesterday my day started at 7 a.m. when I woke up to find Caroline staring right at me asking me to tell her the story of the time I was a little girl and got stung by a wasp. That’s really all there is to the story, but ever since I told it to her [...]

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In somewhat loving memory of the fish

April 28, 2008

It was sometime around Easter when it dawned on me that April was right around the corner and I knew deep in my soul what was looming on the horizon. So it was with fear and trembling that I opened Caroline’s school bag during the first week of April. Sure enough, there it was. The [...]

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And we made sure she took her Metamucil before bed

April 26, 2008

Caroline spent Saturday morning perfecting her golf swing at the driving range with Mimi and Bops. After one shot in which she especially impressed herself, she looked back at them and said, “I’m a natural. I should be on T.V.” And then when she got home, P took her in the backyard so she could [...]

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