Being on a diet and having a husband who’s out of town don’t mix. It’s a particularly deadly combo for the person who’s on a legitimate plan to eat right, because who’s going to have an ounce of sense when left alone with no one watching? My husband went to Dallas for a few days in […]
Cheez-Its
Fun With Kids in the Grocery Store
When I was a stay-at-home mom, I had to do the grocery shopping with my kids.I’m not telling you this now so that you’ll feel retroactively sorry for me. But it is something that sticks with you. I didn’t have the luxury of getting a babysitter for weekly food shopping. If I could have afforded […]
Trip Tales
I’m sorry I was all braggy about the road trip I had planned. I wrote about it about a week ago, when I was still in Stage 3 of Trip Planning: The Romance of Travel. I pictured designer clothes with my smell on them in a suitcase without rips or Disney characters, packed neatly into […]