My husband and I just celebrated our 30th wedding anniversary. Thirty years. There’s something about those decade numbers that just make them sound so very large. Three entire decades. How can this be? Young me had no idea what this would look like. In truth, young me was pretty surprised about the whole getting married… Continue reading Did Not See That Coming
In July 2001, Tim McGraw had a hit single called “Angry All the Time.” It was from his Set This Circus Down album, and it was a cover of a song originally written and recorded by Bruce Robison in 1998. The song was about a marriage falling apart. A man remembering the woman he loved,… Continue reading In the Words of a Country Music Song
My parenting job changed again without me realizing it. And there I was, feeling like I was finally starting to get pretty good at the current job, never noticing that I wasn’t needed anymore in that position. It always seems to change just when I feel like I might be getting the hang of it.… Continue reading The Coach
I was never a fan of the Proverbs 31 woman. You know the one – that fearsome, do-it-all creature who rises and goes and bargains and buys and makes and feeds and never, ever stops. I developed a grievance against her many years ago when I heard one too many Father’s and Mother’s Day sermons… Continue reading That Woman
My husband and I just had our 29th anniversary. It’s a little bit shocking. I don’t see how I’m old enough to have been married for that long, but there it is. We didn’t do anything big to celebrate. I mean, 29 is not a big celebration year. At this point it’s more about the… Continue reading What We Didn’t Know
My husband and I are a team. A detective team. We’re not licensed investigators or anything, but we have some skills. Within just one 24-hour period, we were faced with the following cases: Who dumped our laundry out of the dryer? Who was cooking and didn’t clean up their mess? Why is GrubHub at the… Continue reading A Winning Team
