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 […]
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. […]
Can someone please nominate me for the Klutz of the Year award?
How embarrassing is it that when I stepped out of Laurel’s SUV at 12:30 a.m. this morning, I fell right on my knee in the beam of the headlights? Typical, I tell ya.