Month: April 2016

“Let’s go to the creek,” Grandpa said. And the nine, eight, six five and four year-old children pulled on their shoes and left with their grandfather to take a short walk to the shallow, rock lined flow of water. The other adults relaxed, visited and enjoyed a quiet conversation except one momma who went to…

Riding a wheelchair, wearing a fuscia colored muu-muu with The Leg sticking straight out from the hip definitely ruined my plans to arrive at the airport incognito that evening after the bone surgeon released me from the hospital. Five days before I had misstepped on the stairs, shattered the bone beneath my knee and broken…

I fell into an erector set or so my husband says.. The first couple days after my fall I confused the correct term for the fixator on my leg with a fascinator on the royal lady’s head. Maybe because the bridge of metal screwed into my leg to keep it stiff as goose-stepping soldier’s leg…

The task: Supervise three children ages, four, six and nine, for one weekend. The challenge: Keep them from annoying each other. The solution: Cookie wars (a spin-off of cupcake wars), puzzle races, lots of time at the park to spend all that youthful energy and use any spare time with chores: taking care of toys…