This weekend has been full of fun. I am hosting my soon-to-be niece's bridal shower today and there is an abundance of family in town. It has been an opportunity to blend the two families and provide ample time to get to know one another before the wedding in March....

After my "ood Morning" typo on the email, I was hopeful that the day would definitely improve.  I did get a response back and to my intense pleasure, it too, had typos.   Humans embracing being human.   Grateful to be on track for my deadline, I put the work aside to...

I was given an assignment for a magazine that is on a tight deadline.  Armed with my information, I reached out to several individuals in order to secure interviews and to lock in a date to photograph them.    It seemed effortless until one of those individuals had...

It has been awhile since I have been in the throes of hanging out with a small human.  After voting and enjoying my chicken biscuit, I got to hang out with my great-nephew.  Taylor is five and "a very smart boy".  His words exactly and it isn't a lie at all.  He is...

I am not sure how to word this, but I will do my best to explain my current situation.  When I created my blog this morning, it was under the pretense of sharing about our right to vote and how Bailey, our oldest with Down syndrome, exercises his right as well.  I...

Today is the day......maybe.  If, and only if, people stop flapping their gums, posting ridiculous political crap on social media and exercise the right to vote.  We are voting as a family today and we promised Bailey breakfast at Chick-fil-A, if he gets up earlier...

While some of you basked in the joy of an extra hour of sleep, I crawled out of bed due to the begging of my beloved Basset hounds.  Their cries could not be silenced with my usual hushed screams of "go back to bed".  No, instead they manipulated me with their high...

I have been a bit tangled emotionally.  Sure, it could be the adjustment of Bryce leaving home or the turbulent nature of caring for my geriatric mother, but mixed in has been some grief about the reality of still parenting Bailey.   With him, sometimes I project too...

The minutes crept by as I continued to check the time. I felt like I was waiting for a bomb to explode. I was edgy. My eye was twitching. The common denominator in this particular situation was my mother. In today's episode of "How To Make My Daughter Internally...

"I just fired her," my mother shared, in her rather giddy tone when telling me about the new episode of "How To Make My Daughter Internally Scream".  In this particular episode, this seemingly innocent elderly woman creates havoc by telling said caregiver that her...