When I woke up 33 years ago today, I knew that I was going to have a baby that day. I had gone into early labor the morning before… 6 weeks before my due date.  Fortunately, my husband Barry and I taught at the same school where the early labor began (while teaching a class, no less!), so off we [...]

One of my good friends (thank you Lindsay Lu!) made this for me (and one for my sister, too)… It was taken at Jeff Pulver’s 140 Conference last June in NYC. It was that very trip that made Jane decide she wanted to move to NYC. I’ll never forget the feeling that went through my body when my sister told [...]

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 wrote… I always knew that [...]

Last Tuesday I spent the day in New York City with my friend Sarah. We hadn’t seen each other since the photo shoot for the Hot Blogger Calendar back in October (OCTOBER! It had been that long!?), so we were long overdue for some quality time together. (And really, who needs an excuse to meet in the city for the [...]

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 Audrey wrote a post just [...]

Audrey turned 31 on May 23, and I thought I would share 31 things about my beautiful big sister to celebrate her special day. Some of these things you may already know; others you may not. Enjoy! 1. She knows I’m a day late and a dollar short for everything – including her 31st birthday post – and yet she [...]

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 some combination of the 4!) [...]

When Audrey and I were younger, even though we each had our own rooms, we preferred to sleep together on the pull-out couch in our parents’ bedroom. We call it the pull-out-couch era. I don’t remember when or why it started – or even when or why it ended. I was probably around 9 or 10 years old, and Audrey [...]

Reading over my most recent posts, I realize that I haven’t gotten very personal on my blog lately, even though this is, in fact, my personal blog. Most of my writing is about fun, light-hearted stuff, which is great because there are a lot of fun, light-hearted things going on in my life right now. But there is also something [...]

Audrey’s oldest son William turns 4 today. I cannot wrap my mind around the fact that the little guy I touched in Audrey’s belly here: … and whom I held for the first time here: … is now a smart, witty, happy, funny, big 4-year-old kid: Time has a way of flying by, doesn’t it? I am so proud of [...]