Cookie love

Yet another Devin and Mommy concoction: Banana Coconut Rum cookies from the latest issue of Cooking Light. Chock full of oatmeal, bananas, coconut, golden raisins and sliced almonds (the recipe called for walnuts, but I don’t like ’em). No worries, peeps — there’s a scant teaspoon of the rum in […]

Feeling violated

Today was an ordinary day. Get up, take a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, go to work. Yada, yada, yada. The only difference in my morning routine was that I stopped at the ATM to deposit my check. Some guy pulled in fast behind me and pulled up pretty darn […]

Testing

It’s not like I don’t have enough pics of this kid on his own site, but I was testing my new flash diffuser last night and thought I’d spread his own brand of sunshine over here on Mom’s site.

The bright side

When you spend 8 1/2 days out of 10 in bed, you begin to get a bit negative about things. Rather than dwell on all the bad aspects of the past week, which dawned with a horrible chest cold and was capped off by a severe sinus infection, I will […]

An official Costco convert

I got a membership last summer or fall or some such time, but I’ve only been to the place that once. It’s soooooo big. And the items are soooooo big. And I don’t have room in my house for gallon jars of ketchup and pickles and the like. But Julie […]

Tantalizing conversation

My cellphone rang at work today. That only happens on rare occasions. And, at work, it usually means one thing: daycare’s a callin’. And that, in itself, usually means one thing: Devin’s sick. Or hurt. (Well, OK, that’s two.) How lovely to discover that neither of the above was true. […]