Skye (my 15 year old): I did my homework at 6:50 this morning.
Me (with a disapproving look): Why didn’t you do it over the weekend?
Skye (with a big grin): Because homework is not as important as life.
Jul 052011
Jun 272011
The wedding reception I attended this weekend was quite different. It was held at a downtown Italian restaurant booked entirely for the occasion.
The restaurant led outdoors to a small area overlooking a lush green golf course. Nice and thankfully there was a tent over our heads, or those 90 degrees would’ve been completely unbearable.
I got there early (as usual) and then spent the next hour sipping my red wine and helping myself to the continuous stream of trays filled with hor d’oeuvres passing right in front of me 
while waiting for the tardy folks to arrive.
The thing I love most about weddings is, of course, the chance to get all dressed up. Even more so now that my daughters are old enough to be clucking all over me like little mother hens, making sure my little black dress and fashion accessories are laid out.
Downstairs, my girls had my heels waiting. Would you believe it, I took a few steps out the front door and one of the heels snapped on me?! Perfect timing !
But hey, if you have daughters like mine, you won’t have a thing to worry about. Raine quickly brought out her lacey heels and went, here wear this, Mom! Those heels are brand new! She is just the sweetest.
Pretty, huh? They were a tad too big for me but I survived the evening without falling over.
And of course, my daughters didn’t stop there. I didn’t know more than a few people at the wedding reception but my girls kept me entertained all night with their witty text messages. I think people must’ve been wondering why I was smiling at myself so much .
Multivitamins for my picky eater
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Jun 272011
This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Walgreens for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.
With Steev away at university and far away from home, I’m always concerned about whether he’s eating right. Being the picky eater that he is, and very new to the kitchen, he may not be eating a well-balanced diet.
Obviously I can’t be there to cook for him but I want to be sure he stays healthy. When I was visiting him last winter, we stopped by Walgreens to check out Walgreens Brand Health & Wellness Products.
I was looking for multivitamins to supplement his diet. I find that Walgreens Gold Seal Multi Vitamins Dietary Supplement contains pretty much the same active ingredients as other national brands but is much less costly and the savings can go to another cup of Starbucks 
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There’s also a pharmacist there who can answer any questions he might have. Steev tells me he’s been taking the multivitamins regularly (when he remembers) and he thinks it’s pretty good. He also likes that he can order online when he’s running low.
Walgreens has a Walgreens Way to Well Fund™ and right now, some bloggers are having gift card giveaways which I have just told Steev about.
Jun 232011
And so because we had a little drama last week, Skye, my feisty 15-year-old, decided it was time to cheer me up with a couple of little surprises.
And let me zoom that up so you can see the words on this cute little strawberry bookmark.
We bumped into my Dad at the mall and decided to mosey on over to Coffee Bean for a cuppa. And when I came back with coffee and cheesecake, Skye presented me with this origami lily in full bloom which she folded while I was in line. Isn’t it the prettiest?
What do your kids do to cheer you up?
Jun 182011
Raine and Skye both deleted their Facebook accounts last Monday. Of their own accord. I had nothing to do with it. Maybe it’s just as well because I’ve never encouraged any of my kids to be on Facebook in the first place.
I’ve maintained my stand from the beginning about what they should and shouldn’t do online. Mother knows best, as Mother Gothel would say. I’ve drummed into them the security and privacy issues and the dangers of electronic pickpocketing and pedophiles, stalkers and future employers finding out too much, et cetera.
My kids know the drill – no real names, no photos of themselves, no private info. They’ve been very good about it even though I’m sure the peer pressure must be enormous seeing as how people consider it ‘cool’ to shout out every last detail of what they, and the garden grasshopper, do every minute of the day on the internet.
The good thing about my kids is that they don’t care about trying to live up to everyone else’s definintion of “cool”. Like I always say to them, just do your own thang, think for yourself and set your own standards. It doesn’t matter how “cool” everyone else is. Just be yourself and you’re cool 
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So then, is it any surprise then that we have no iPads in the house, never tasted a macaron and the only GPS I own is the often unreliable one in my head. That’s exactly how uncool we are!
May 272011
So one of Raine’s good friends from high school came out and told her parents she’s lesbian. This is an extremely smart girl who loves to joke and laugh and is on back-slappingly good terms with the boys at school but that’s not the point. Point is she’s always been something of a tomboy, very outgoing, very athletic.
Obviously her parents were (and probably still are) in shock. But they’re not the only ones. Raine was clearly taken aback and so was I. Even more so that her partner is a woman in her 30′s! Not that we have anything against anyone’s orientation or preference. In fact, we’re pretty open to this.
Just that we always thought of her a tomboy. I mean, so many girls are tomboyish in their teen years and later blossom into girly girls. So her coming out was like a ton of bricks though in the backs of our minds, we might’ve had our suspicions.
Apparently her parents took it all rather badly, which in turn, got me wondering how any parent should or would react to something like that. I hadn’t really given this much thought. But if it were my kid, I’m not sure how I would react either. Would you?
