Virgin: Really? A girl in a tree?

Hey! My boss has a great post over at  Laggylife’s Blog, so pop over and read it first, then come back. I started a comment for her post, but it got tooooo large, so I migrated it here! GO! Then come back! Virgin is a very clever marketer, but as Laggy says, marketing and advertising [...]

I haven’t had cancer, but I wish I could be this centred if I did

I  accompanied my older son, Graydon, through childhood leukemia, from “phantom” aches and pains and emotional outbursts and the loss of his curly eyelashes, to the trips to the doctor and “weird” blood results, diagnosis, finally, at age 8 and then 30 months of unrelenting chemo, until he was 11, and when it was all [...]

Private therapy: is it all about me?

A while ago I threw out the question to you guys, my friends and fellow bloggers, family and stalkers, that i was going to embark on something that was actually “all about me,” which was individual therapy. I’ve done plenty of family therapy, and mum and kid therapy, and a short (read: 1.5 sessions) of [...]

A sign of the times (from the mouths of babes)

Back in a former life we ate out, a lot. I dined out professionally, and when I wasn’t paid to eat out, I happily paid my way myself. When Tessa and Graydon were in their formative years, they ate in restaurants—with menus, waiters, bread plates, dessert forks and Shirley Temples—a lot. Then things changed, and [...]

Things I Love Thursday: pineapple upside down cake that I don’t have to make! plus a contest!

Over at The Diaper Diaries, it’s time for Jill’s weekly “Things I Love Thursday” blog carnival. This week I am sharing a delicious dessert that is so retro not only will you want to serve it again and again, you’ll want to make Spam appetizers, a sputnik cheese ball and maybe those Swedish meatballs in [...]

Things I Love Thursday: a ring, but no ordinary ring

This blog carnival is called Things I Love Thursday. The rules are simple: “pick an actual thing that you love. Feel free to do a product review, but make sure to let your readers know that you have been supplied with the product to review so we are keepin’ it honest.” This Thursday the thing [...]

A simple case of tummy ache

This beautiful image is from www.bittbox.com. I have a couple of kids with some issues, both of whom have made great strides. My little Luka, seven years old, has had me going between the extremes of thinking he is a sponge and has soaked up all this unrest and stress and is hiding it very [...]

Reader poll—seriously, folks—how much do you want to know?

This is an odd post to be sure. If you’ve read my blog Because I Said So!, you know that I have three kids, an ex-husband, close family ties, excellent friends, a new puppy, a cat, two bunnies and a tank of fish. We have fabulously good times and then really bad times. Before Luka [...]

Things I Love Thursday: party invitations

This blog carnival is called Things I Love Thursday. The rules are simple: “pick an actual thing that you love. Feel free to do a product review, but make sure to let your readers know that you have been supplied with the product to review so we are keepin’ it honest.” This isn’t a true [...]

Mental Health Week: family therapy session with our new pet therapy puppy

Yes, we did head off to the weekly family therapy session with our new pet therapy puppy (unnamed as of yet, probably damaging the puppy’s ability to imprint or habituate to his name or something) (both of my sons were nameless for the first month of their lives…. I may be onto something here). Clover/Pocket/Lucky/Baybay [...]