Recently, on the spur of the moment, I purchased a pair of Hello Kitty pajama pants. I’ve never worn anything like them before, but, I have a preschool daughter who’s heavily-vested in the world of Hello Kitty, I needed a new pair of comfy around-the-house pants, and I had two minutes to shop. Hence the […]
Author: Island Mom
About My Reading
So in some bizarre twist of fate, I like to read. Wow, a former reading and English teacher who did freelance editing for fun likes to read? Who would have guessed it! Yes, I was the pasty-looking kid with stringy long hair and brandless denim sitting in the middle row of the bus readingon the […]
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Beach Games
My sons discovered a new beach game yesterday. We were out playing on the beach, when suddenly, they were gone. One second they were right in front of my eyes, and the next second they were gone. See where they went? Â The boys found a large hole dug in the sand by some previous […]
About Sand
If you live near the beach, one of the things you must either love or make your peace with is sand, because it’s everywhere. By “everywhere†I don’t mean just on the beach. I mean everywhere. A quick perusal of my house this morning revealed this: And this:  Oh, and this:  Followed by […]
Blissful Carolina Water Temperatures
Once upon a time, there was a maiden who lived in a land that was almost perfect, except for the fact that it was cold, it wasn’t by the ocean, and the local politicians had a penchant for illegal activities. This land had by it a body of water that looked very much like an […]
Talking To Myself In Public
If you’re ever in a coastal Carolina grocery store and see a seemingly normal-looking woman walking down the aisle who suddenly says something that makes no sense within the context of the situation and then looks embarrassed, it might be me. Like, she’s standing by the cheese, comparing the merits of regular vs. reduced fat […]