do they read obituaries in hell?

We did the math. Frankie and her siblings were born right around the time I got pregnant. Madelyn was so excited, she was sending us phot...

The thing that solidified how much I loved the Jumping place where we had Ro's birthday party is this: The young people who work there s...

I'm not sure how I feel about putting Ro 's photo out there so blatantly anymore. However, I want to show you that I slapped togethe...

My kid turned 2 on Halloween (the same day Jon turned 39). We dressed her up as Mary Poppins and took her around to four houses where she re...

Today I celebrated cc 's birthday with her for the first time in YEARS. She's always traveling so one week she's in Turks & ...

Part of the reason I took so dang long to visit my friend and her beautiful new baby is because I had wanted to make a "rainbow" ...

I got roped into hosting a "facebook party" where the representative holds prizes and cutesy quizzes and we all spend an hour virt...

I got to hold my dear friend's rainbow baby today. Each and every baby is a miracle, no doubt. But when you know how much they've ...

Last night was the worst night of sleep our kid has ever had. She generally fights us for two hours and reliably stays down until exactly 1 ...

"Question." "Yes?" "Why is it ok for Trump supporters to be single-issue [sanctity of life, Second Amendment, T...

Jon and I spent our five-year anniversary (September 17) working a mandatory two-day weekend (I think it was something like my 11th or 16th...

I have basically spent all of my extra time trying to wrap my head around the current political climate. This sentence basically encapsulate...

I can barely function at work. I am paralyzed with fear. Last night when I finally fell asleep,  I dreamed that the government threw Jon in...

It takes a lot to bring me down. I'm one of those people who walks around with a smile on her face for nearly no reason. I smile at peop...

I'm not sure what to say about how things are looking with this election. I'm holding out hope that the people who care about this ...

I don't think the people of this country will allow it to go off the rails. My parents didn't give up everything to come here and ma...

Click on the above photograph. In between the grassy middleground and the leafy foreground, you will see a thin, green, wire fence. It ...

Today was a gorgeous day. November 5 and it's 71 degrees in the Chicago area? Wow. And what wonderful timing that my former colleague ...

I only worked two days this week, and I barely made it to the weekend.

I wrote this post in February 2014. In it, I talk about how overworked I am, how stretched thin our job team is and how I needed a mental...