My daughter recently got an internship with a big NYC literary agency. It is exactly the internship and the kind of job she wants and she is thrilled. Busy, stressed, but thrilled. It’s all “virtual” in that she still lives in her apartment near the LSU campus and is taking classes, but she works two …
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A few days ago, we were all in the car coming home from church. This is a pretty rare thing. Not coming home from church. Or going to church, for that matter. No, usually the whole family isn’t in the car together. Our daughter has her own car and her own apartment, so usually, she’s …
Besides their good looks. Steve is on a business trip so Noah’s been sleeping in our bed. This morning I woke him up for school. Noah: I’m Mommy’s little skunk. Me: Because you stink? Noah: Oh. I’m Mommy’s little hedgehog because I snuggle with her at night. Me. More like you kick me in the …
My husband is on a business trip and will be out of town until Sunday. Life tends to loosen up a bit when he’s gone. I suspect some things slide when I go away, too, but he won’t admit to that. More ice cream and pizza in the freezer when I get home tell a …
Parents know there are some milestones your child will go through. You might not expect that sometimes they feel like walking through a door that slams shut behind you and you can never go back. First words. First steps. Start of school. Those are things we expect and sometimes look forward to. They’re signs that …
Our second day in Nashville started a little slow. We went to the Belle Mead Plantation which is a working farm and an antebellum southern plantation. It was okay, but I’ve done plantations before and I get confused over all the names and dates. I guess I’m not a history nerd. The good thing about …
About a month ago or so, my sister-in-law sent me a message on Facebook wondering if I would be interested in the two of us (JUST the two of us) meeting somewhere about halfway between Akron, OH (where she lives) and Baton Rouge, LA (where I live) and spending just a few days doing touristy …
Yesterday afternoon, I “introduced” Noah to a bunch of toys he hadn’t played with since he discovered the “joys” of the DVD player and Netflix Instant Queue, not to mention the Wii. He went nuts, and I had to put new batteries in a very annoying truck that makes obnoxious sounds when you push buttons, …
If you’ve read much of this blog, you know that I feel lost most of the time when it comes to my kids’ schools. Well, turns out that I’m apparently confused in the rest of my life, too. Every year, I sign my son up for swimming lessons at the local YMCA. He LOVES the …
News in the Brandt household: Beloved is finally finished with business travel for a couple of weeks. This is a busy time of year for him. He went to Brussels the week before Halloween, and actually had a Belgium Waffle. He came home Halloween night almost in time to take the Boy out trick or …