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“Okay, Thanksgiving is over.” I was standing in the middle of the living room, hands on my hips looking around the room. “Who’s helping me get the Christmas decorations down from the attic?” My husband Steven and our son Alex were laying on the couch, both with their hands on their bellies. “Seriously?” Steven groaned.Continue reading “AND WE’RE OFF”

My son Alex walked into the kitchen and looked at me tossing a clementine up in the air, catching it in one hand and than the other. “What are you doing?” he asked as he went over to the cabinet and pulled out a loaf of bread. “Teaching myself to juggle.” I kept tossing itContinue reading “JUGGLING”

My husband Steven and our son Alex and I were all sitting at the dining room table eating dinner when Steven stopped in mid-sentence and pointed past me. “There’s a balloon floating in the woods.” he said. Both Alex and I turned around to see what he was talking about. “What balloon?” I asked. StevenContinue reading “LITTLE THINGS”

My son Alex and I were standing out on our back porch, bundled up in sweatshirts, looking at my potted herb garden. “Are you going to bring any of them in?” He asked as he pulled off a yellow leaf from my basil plant. “Nope.” I shook my head. “I’m not making that mistake again.”Continue reading “THE ANTS GO MARCHING”

“What are you doing?” My son Alex had just pulled up in the driveway and was walking up our front walk when he’d noticed me crouching over our fall display. “Never thought I’d be doing this but, it seems like I’m going to be weeding our decorations this season.” I complained as I yanked anotherContinue reading “WEEDING DECORATIONS”

“Ah, rats!” I cried as lost the game of Solitaire I’d been playing. I’d been sitting on the couch playing on my phone when my son Alex came into the room. “What are we doing for lunch?” he asked. “What?” I looked confused as I looked over at the clock. “Are you kidding me?” IContinue reading “ADDICTED”

“I’m not doing it!” I said shaking my head. “Nope. I’m not calling an antipasti a charcuterie board.” Still shaking my head. “Nope. Not happening.” Alex looked over at the advertisement I was holding, that had come in the mail, from a local farmers market I loved to shop at. Alex started to laugh. “IContinue reading “RENAMING”

“Oh, good they’re here.” My husband Steve said as he walked to the front door. “What’s going on?” I asked as I looked out my living room window early on a beautiful Saturday morning. A pick-up truck had just pulled up to our house towing a flatbed that had a backhoe chained down to it.Continue reading “FARMING”

My son Alex and I were in one of our favorite parks, taking an early morning walk, when he stopped and pointed to a slug inching its way across the blacktop path in front of us. “He’s got quite a slime trail going.” I said as I noticed about a foot long silver trail behindContinue reading “SLIMY SLUG”

“That’s it, I’m decorating for fall.” I said as I pulled the attic stairs down. My son Alex watched me climb up into the attic. “But it’s 80 degrees out.” “Doesn’t matter.” I said as I crawled over to the bins marked fall decorations. “The calendar says it’s fall so I’m going to decorate.” IContinue reading “FALL DECOR”