Life and Love After Divorce

Today I was outed by my niece as a bad blogger. Those weren’t her exact words, per se, but when she told me she had been doing some research on me (those were her exact words) online, she mentioned that she saw I had posted something about William’s birthday. “Hmmm, William’s birthday,” I thought. “That [...]

5 years!

My nephew William turns 5 today. It seems we have gone from this: to this: in the blink of an eye. And on this, the 5th anniversary of William’s birth, I’d like to acknowledge once again, as I did last year, that it is Audrey’s 5th anniversary of becoming a mother, too. Here’s what I [...]

Happy Birthday, Henry!

My little nephew Henry, who has grown from this tiny little thing, in his Auntie Janie’s arms… into a happy, joyous bundle of love… turns one year old today. It seems like just yesterday I was tweeting about and excitedly announcing his arrival. But yesterday I was actually at the 140 Characters Conference in NYC [...]

Family dinners, then and now

Last night my mom, dad, Audrey and I went out to dinner to celebrate Audrey’s 31st birthday. Yes, her birthday was a week earlier, on May 23, but it fell on Memorial Day weekend, and it was a pretty jam-packed weekend at that, so the birthday dinner was pushed to May 30. It’s funny that [...]

Unexpected blessings

One of the good things about living back at home with my parents right now is that since they live about a mile from Audrey and her family – and Audrey’s boys pretty much love nothing more than going over to Grandma and Pop-up’s house – I get to see my nephews (or at least [...]

Weekend highlights

My Friday night impromptu hair and make-up session by my fabulous friend Leah before going out on the town After getting pampered by Leah, having the best time with her and Yadira – two ladies who make me laugh and just make it fun to be silly Taking Ryder and Seth to the dog park [...]

A guru’s work is never done

Like most people (I think!?), I give my parents a hard time about their lack of knowledge in the technology department. But I always oftentimes try to patiently assist them when they have questions about how to do things on their computers or need help their iPods. Don’t get me wrong, they do better than [...]

It’s no secret: time flies when you’re watching loved ones grow

I got to spend a little time with my oldest brother’s two kids last evening. I had gone out to dinner with one of my oldest friends, and then had plans to swim with my sister-in-law. Since I had some free time between dinner and swimming, I headed over to my brother and sister-in-law’s house [...]

Sometimes the littlest family members help the most

When I wrote a post recently about how I’m going through a little rough patch in my personal life, I mentioned how fortunate I am to have such a wonderful, supportive family to help me through it. The comments I received on that post said much of the same (again, THANK YOU for all your [...]

There are better things to do than things on the to-do list

Sometimes impromptu plans end up being the most fun. On Saturday I was at my parents’ house with my dogs. My nephews William and Alex were over, too, getting ready to go sledding. My parents asked if I wanted to come, but I had a little to-do list for work that I wanted to get [...]

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