I spent a few days with Audrey while her husband was out of town. All I can say is… thank God I have thick skin. Or, at least, “pretty lines.” I’m thinking that I must get William (just turned 4) and Alexander (just turned 3) together for a little tutorial in [...]

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How do you, and/or the children in your life, refer to… well, flatulence.
I ask only because I overheard a big and bad discussion between an adult and a child at Fenway Park on Monday night regarding this very topic. First, let me repeat that I was at a baseball game. Peanuts. Cracker [...]

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My dear, wonderful, fabulously funny friend, Beth at I Should Be Folding Laundry, posed an interesting query yesterday… if you had 4 hours of pretty much everything else in your world completely done (you know, like laundry), what would you do with this time? (OK. I know this is as preposterous as, what [...]

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I had the most magnificent weekend. I know it seems redundant to write about Bloggers-Who-Meet-Face-to-Face for the first time… you know, the slow-motion run along a busy city street while Chariots of Fire (or even more scary, Bolero) wafts though the clean, fresh air as two (or 11) bloggers henceforth total strangers but for [...]

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If you know me well, you know that I love Bran Muffins from Dunkin’ Donuts.
That’s it, though.  Dunkin’ Donuts is it.
I have met lots of Bran Muffins that I don’t like… in restaurants, in coffee shops and cafes, all over the country and even other parts of the world.  I have tried baking my [...]

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The CVS/Caremark Downtown 5K winds through the beautiful and historic streets of downtown Providence. This past Sunday, the CVS 5K kicked off under a spectacular blue, sun-filled sky. More than 8,000 runners registered for the race, including more than 6,000 for the main race event. The starting field included eight Olympic runners, [...]

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Remember how I told you about forgetting to put on my pants?  Well, I did something kind-of-sorta-just-as forgetful this past weekend.  But this time, it was in the wee hours of the morning… and it involved my little, innocent and unsuspecting Henry.
I’ll chalk this one up to inexperience and exhaustion, but now I’m beginning to [...]

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Audrey’s boys, for very good reason, think that going to where Pop-up works is like going to Disney World. After all, everything stops when the grandkids arrive. Anything goes. Nothing is off-limits.
Take yesterday afternoon, for instance.
I had gone along for the ride to Auntie Janie’s home to retrieve the missing William shoes that [...]

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A few decades ago, West Virginian Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade had an idea that turned into a mission. Her mission gained local momentum.  Then state momentum.  And finally, with help of civic, church and political leaders, Marian saw her idea pass into legislation by the United States Congress… and in 1978, the Grandparents Day proclamation was [...]

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Dear Kohler,
I am the grandmother of 7 grandsons.
Count ‘em. 7. Andrew is 5. Jake is 4. William is 3. Alexander is 2. Benjamin is 1. Henry is 12 weeks. And Dylan is 6 weeks.
That’s a lotta… how can I say this delicately… pee.
Yesterday is a wonderful example [...]

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