Archive for August, 2005

There’s a bag of chocolate chips in my cabinet and I swear I can hear them calling out to me, “You don’t know the power of the Dark Side…”

I believe I am addicted to sugar. I don’t feel good in the morning if I don’t have some sort of cake/muffin/donut/pastry. I get cranky – no, [...]

L lost his first tooth tonight! OK, so I am supposed to slip some money under his pillow and take the tooth out WITHOUT him waking up? He’s a pretty light sleeper… but even if he does wake up, I guess I can just pretend I’m checking in on him.
Anyone have any funny Tooth Fairy [...]

It was the summer of 1995 when I got my first modem. Its speed was 2400 bpm. I sat for hours at the computer, reading message boards (first ever visited: a Barry Manilow fan board) and visiting chat rooms on Prodigy’s online service. Soon, I made the move to the increasingly popular AOL. Within 6 [...]

Who was your first best friend?
CLB, aka Carrie, who I’ve mentioned before. We were pretty much inseparable from ages 8 to 14 (I think?? Boy, I am getting old…) My best memories of time spent with Carrie include endless swimming, the Pizza Pan, Centipede, the Moose Club, dancing recitals and competitions (remember that street [...]

L’s last swim lesson was this week. As I waited for him to come out of the pool, I noticed that a couple other mothers were giving a gift to their child’s instructor at the end of their lesson.
Wait a minute. A gift for a swim instructor who was only with your child for 1/2 [...]