The following is based on actual events. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. The Scene: A beautiful late Sunday afternoon in the suburbs. Father and youngest son, Chase, age 8, are out at the last Cub Scout meeting of the year. I, mother, am in the kitchen packing up a picnic dinner. [...]
By Monday afternoon I was getting a bit weary of all the Sex and the City talk. Major chick flick. Estrogen fest. X chromosomal experience. New York. Blah. Blah. Blah. I liked Sex and the City on HBO. I watched. I laughed. It was good, red-blooded American gal entertainment. But, puhlease. This movie was NOT [...]
It was quite the weekend at the Mendell’s with several baseball playoff games, my Mom’s retirement picnic (30 years of teaching nursery school), a pilgrimage to ToysRUseless, and Noah asking me what the word c%$# means – some of which will be featured in this week’s posts. So when Jennifer asked if I would take [...]
You may have heard that last weekend we lost a really cool Mother of Brothers. “Mommy” from the Family Circus died of Alzheimer’s at the age of 82. In real life, she was Thelma, Bil Keane’s wife of 60 years. The Associated Press story reported Bil as saying: “When the cartoon first appeared, she looked [...]
It started about three weeks ago in a casual way. Noah sweetly tells me that he wants to share something with me on the Internet. Can anything possibly good come of this? He sits me down and takes me to a page of water guns. Not just any water guns, but the kind for which [...]
It’s Memorial Day – a holiday I look forward to every year. It is the threshold of summer – a long weekend of planting flowers, grilling outside and serious family fun time. And I get to wear my white jeans again – a fashion rule my mother instilled in me at a very early age. [...]
Chase broke his arm almost three weeks ago. Being excellent parents, Dave and I only let it go 29 hours before taking him to the emergency room. I Share and Enjoy:
It’s Spring time in the suburbs. And during this season of re-birth there is only one thing that terrifies us parents more than the school note which says that the kid who sits next to your kid has head lice. I’m talking ticks. Each night Dave and I scan our boys’ scalps, underarms, and otherwise [...]
I am Jennifer. Married to Chris with three boys, Ian (17), Hugh (13), and Malcolm (11). I am Emily. Married to Dave with two boys, Noah (10) and Chase (8). And we are Mothers of Brothers. Welcome to our world! And hopefully your world, too! This is what happens when two like-minded Moms, who share [...]
