This week ‘an official evaluator’ informed me that my daughter Eva could have a learning disability related to her auditory processes and possibly including language.
She then added that perhaps Eva doesn’t have a learning disability. Maybe she’s too young and we need more tests to figure out what’s going on. Or maybe there’s something [...]

Growing up, I played ballerina games in my third floor apartment in Rome. I’d put a table cloth over my head to resemble long hair, and ran around my living room. This greatly angered our downstairs neighbors because I was making too much noise with my graceful jumps from couch to floor, from chair to [...]

We may not know if Tiger Woods’ accident was indeed just a crash or something entirely different, but we’ve certainly been obsessing over this story for the last few days.
If for some inexplicable reason you don’t know what he looks like here’s his picture:

The sport legend is well known for protecting his privacy [...]

There are so many things that I appreciate today and every day, even though I forget to stop and think about them.
So here they are in no particular order, just the way I saved the pictures.
Thank you my first love, my furry baby. Through thick and thin, you drove us crazy, and [...]

There are things that accompany me throughout the day. They’re as annoying as the little flies during the summer months in southern Alabama. Or the twenty minute long commercials that keep interrupting the last three seconds of the Office.
Unfortunately the doubts are in my head, so I can’t squish them like blood sucking [...]

I write because
it’s a connection with worlds, people
at times I make you angry
or maybe I make you smile
Some days
it fills the space between us
or it makes that distance even more impossible to bridge
but on occasions our words are exactly what we mean

Writing
it comes from my heart
sometimes it’s raw
sometimes it’s funny
it may be flat
it [...]

Two of my children struggle with weight issues. My nine year old daughter Luisa is a bit overweight, and my three year old Livia is definitely overweight.
It’s not about going through growth spurts. No, they’ re struggling with weight according to my pediatrician and the charts. And yes I look at them and see it [...]

I love Sundays when my husband is home.I feel like I belong to ‘us’ not to the place where we happen to live, and I feel at peace.
As a military wife spending consecutive weeks with my husband is a treat, especially if we seem to be in complete harmony. Recently we behave as if [...]

Some days I feel like this.

If you don’t like it, feel free to skip over or navigate away from the image. That’s the beauty of the internet.
Today I have “impure and bad thoughts’ toward some people. I know I should raise above the anger.
Trying. Trying some more, so I remembered this big guy. He seems [...]

This was the first time my sister tried apple cider and these wonderful apple donuts.

So yummy!

Now I’m going to drink this delicious cider which will send me straight to the potty and solve the traveling constipation issues

I can’t post a recipe for donuts/doughnuts of any kind because I’ve never made them, but here [...]