Month: September 2000

All three of our sons showed up at our house for Labor Day with full beards. I don’t think my husband will ever quite recover. Through the years he has adamantly declined to grow a beard: Too itchy, too much bother to keep it neat, and he has no intention of looking like his Amish…

All three of our sons showed up at our house for Labor Day with full beards. I don’t think my husband will ever quite recover. Through the years he has adamantly declined to grow a beard: Too itchy, too much bother to keep it neat, and he has no intention of looking like his Amish…

I must have made a donation to some non-profit organization. That’s the only explanation I had when I received a package of return address labels with a set of matching blank cards featuring fuzzy, gentle pictures of children and a charming still life of blue willow dishes. A few days later I received another plea…

We ended our Labor Day family gathering with a caravan to Little Rock where we went our separate ways. One caught a plane, another shared a ride back to college and a third drove back north to his apartment. We started later than we had planned. Traveling with a couple of toddlers insured we stopped…

When the kids outnumber the parents, the only way to survive is to surrender. So the kid likes to play with the water. Is that a problem? Not for me. I put him in our deep kitchen sink, turn on the faucet to a slow speed and let the child play with it. Water is…