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Seriously - August?

Already?

I was considering titling this post "What I Did on My Summer Vacation", but that would have been a bit monumentally disingenuous. Because February, March, April, and let's face it, most of May are not technically even remotely part of Summer Vacation.

Then I thought of titling this post "Mom, Interrupted." But I didn't want to frighten any of you off with scary asylum imagery a la the movie...even if Angeli… Continue

In the interest of full disclosure, and at the risk of offending a few of you, let me start off by saying I am not a fan of George W. Bush. I know, not many of us are these days...but I was way ahead of the crowd. I literally cried when he was elected. Both times.

And continuing in the vein of full disclosure, I will share that I was not initially a Barack Obama supporter. I began my political acquaintance with him comfortably esconced in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuits. For a long ti… Continue

In another, smaller, online moms community where I am active, one of our ranks is struggling. Her name is Melissa, and sometime before Christmas, her husband will deploy to Iraq. The sense of heaviness she feels is not from a fear of the unknown, but because she already knows what life without him will be like. This is her husband's second deployment. He will be gone for at least 18 months, and as she notes, two consecutive Christmases. Their young daughter will double in age before her father i… Continue

Yesterday, thanks to the generosity of my brother- and sister-in-law and the pair of tickets they had to spare, my husband and I went to the Georgia Dome to watch the Atlanta Falcons play the New Orleans Saints. We had a great time - it was the first opportunity we've had to go to a Falcons game since we moved here a few years ago. In fact, now that I think about it, it's been 20 years since the last time I went to a professional football game. And here's what made the biggest impression on me y… Continue

I first learned of this unique exhibition from a friend who has children a few years older than my own preschoolers - she is planning to take her children for the positive perspective she hopes they will gain regarding difference, disability, and diversity. I haven't yet gone,… Continue