Finding Yourself Despite Yourself

As a young girl I poured great time and attention into naming my dolls and stuffed animals. My favorite Pound Puppy’s name was Penelope, Barbie often went by Anastacia, and my oh so soft and fluffy dress up kitten with the optional fluffy tail extention and button up pastel sweater was known as Samantha.

I still [...]

I’ve come to realize that much of the middle and high school taunting was way off the mark. “Geek” just doesn’t fit, no really, stop clutching your sides and hear me out. This week’s prompt at Crazy/Hip Blog Mamas sounded simple and inspiring enough “If I could be any superhero, I would be…” I [...]

I am breaking out

and my renter is a blog all about chocolate.

I think I’m going to go skulk around there for awhile, compile a shopping list and comfort my zit laden self with something choco-tastic.

Yep, over there in the side bar, that thumbnail, click it. From the other side of the pond, I’m [...]

Thank you for all the well wishes and good thoughts. Tessa seems to be on the mend. Target has special ordered dye free flavor free Benedryl for my stock pile (hopefully we won’t find ourselves this bad off again). For the next few days I’m keeping her diet Vitamin C and citric acid free. By [...]

At 11:30 pm I found myself prowling the 24 hour stores in search of the holy grail of children’s’ medication- dye free, flavor free benedryl. Only months before I had scoffed when I spied it resting on the shelf “Who would want that and be charged $1.24 extra for the privilege?” Apparently, me (insert foot [...]