Three years ago I took my kids (Elena Grace & Christian, then 9 & 12) up to my parents' house for Christmas. It was the first time in over a decade that I had been "home" for Christmas, and we resurrected every Christmas tradition I had grown up with. We baked my grandma's famous vanilla-apricot … Continue reading Christmas Redux, Christmas Remix
Category: Family
Duck, Duck, Dog!
When You Wait till You’re Married (List#3)
In company with dinosaurs and dodos, we have to list the wait-till-you're-married man as extinct, do we not? I honestly believed so, at least as it applies to this country and culture... but I'm here to report that the subspecies is not defunct. I met Jon last year. And I married him this February. And then we started our life of … Continue reading When You Wait till You’re Married (List#3)
I Am the Pumpkin Patch
My mother used to tease that she had found me in a pumpkin patch, and my sister under a cabbage leaf. Secure in our elementary knowledge of biology (and the baby-book photos of her bulging belly) we didn't think twice about our origin, despite her joke. I used to make a similar wisecrack when my teens … Continue reading I Am the Pumpkin Patch
Addendum to a Eulogy
Yesterday my dad should have turned seventy. He passed away this year on my birthday, so this weekend we've been missing him on his. Ironically, I could still practice my favorite joke-ritual, which was not to call my dad (whose depth of phone-phobia was rivaled only by my sister's and my own) on his birthday. I … Continue reading Addendum to a Eulogy
Singing in the Shower
It's fairly telling that my most "recent" post here dates from almost two years ago. It's even more telling that I haven't FELT like writing for two years. (That should be a red flag for a person like me, right?) And the real irony is that there was plenty to be writing ABOUT in those two years, … Continue reading Singing in the Shower
Who’s that MAN?
[This post will probably provoke a protest of "Mo-o-om!" from its subject... (Have you noticed how a teenager can turn "Mom" into a three-syllable word?) But the fearless family-chronicler forges forward nonetheless. ;) Love you, Son!] I had a weird moment just a while back, one that other moms-of-sons might recognize... I had taken a few … Continue reading Who’s that MAN?
Kana's Chronicles 