Listening to the deafening grind of our blender while it worked hard to make my husband’s smoothie at 8:30pm, I cringed. The pillows around my ears couldn’t drown out the noise. It was surely tumbling up the stairs and pounding on the door of my sleeping son’s room. It hit me. The hands down absolute […]
This week I helped tame a class of four year olds at church. Not that they were tamed by the end of it, but we played a nice game of sit-in-your-chair ping pong. As exhausting as it was, there was a moment of enlightenment in the middle when one of the boys stood up resolutely […]
Sometimes as humans we put off doing things, even when they offer the promise of great joy and excitement. I’m not sure why we do it. Maybe we have been brainwashed to believe certain items of business will be dull or riddled with anxiety, based solely on their names. For instance, taking out the trash […]
Let’s get serious about life…sort of. Posting intermittently on this blog about the humor I found in life over the last few years has helped me get through our journey as medical students. (My husband was the student, I was the substitute teacher/mom, THANK GOODNESS. He must love what he does, that’s all there is […]
As anyone who has ever seen the movie Elf knows, coming up with an idea for a successful children’s book is no easy task. Fortunately for me, I’m on the brink of the next best-seller, and I owe it all to the hours I’ve spent reading to my eight month old. In my studies, I […]
According to Emojipedia (Millenials say whaaat?), “There are as many as 1,851 emoji characters supported on current platforms.” It only makes sense that we have all gotten a text at some point that made use of one of the more obscure emojis, and resulted in mass confusion. For example, I recently sent the following text […]
While most women do not worry about gaining weight during pregnancy, the fear of extreme obesity washes over many of us when the baby comes out and we step on the scale minutes later. (That’s what I did first after delivery, didn’t you?) What? All the pounds didn’t fall out when the baby did? Never […]
“Mommy, why do the Johnsons only have a candle in one window?” I looked down at the bundled up marshmallow hanging onto my hand as we crunched through the snow in front of the Johnson’s hulking colonial house. Over the course of this short winter stroll around the block, Noelle had seen several houses whose […]
This is one of the most dominant messages of today. As individuals, it is our duty to ourselves to focus on breaking away from the crowd and becoming whoever and whatever we want. We are not limited by the rules society has set. This message is not new; we have seen its empowering results in […]
Summer as a pregnant teacher has meant one major thing to me: it’s time to slip into pajamas (the only comfortable thing these days) and binge watch some Netflix. I know I’m a thousand years behind, but I figured it was time to finally see why all the critics raved about Prison Break. I expected the show […]
