Well, it’s official. I’m the mom of a cheerleader. Practices began in December, but now the games are in full swing. It all began last month with these. Baby-girl was confused when she first got them, but I knew what she I was in for. Specifically, I was in for an hour of separating and […]
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Beach Forts In January
I’ve embraced, with fervor, the drastically warmer winter weather we experience here in coastal Carolina, after so many years of living in Chicago. It should come as no surprise then, when the lunch hour news today reported current temperatures in the 70s and a cooler front on its way (Heavens to Betsy, Earl, it will […]
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A Brief Story Illustrating Why I’m Not Offering Diet Advice
Since I shared with you my pre-diet diet last weekend, I thought I’d share a brief excerpt from my life over the holidays. While we were celebrating Christmas with my family, I had plenty of time to watch my one-year-old nephew eat. And guess what? In large part, because my sister, his mom, is a […]
The New Health Regime
Well, we are in a bit of a quandary about this New Health Regime thing now. And, yes, this is me making excuses about why the regime takeover has yet to commence. But, they’re valid excuses. First of all, we just got back on Monday from being out of town for two weeks, so we’re […]
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An Island Family Epiphany
On Sunday, LCB inadvertently committed me to another project. The small people were lamenting the fact that the holidays were almost over, so LCB proceeded to list a series of positives to look forward to in the coming week (leftover candy, new Wii games to play when we got home, etc.) that ended with the […]
Miscellaneous Holiday Highlights
Among other things, during the week of Christmas we continued our beach football games that we started over Thanksgiving. As an incentive for those who preferred not to be tackled while trying to enjoy their time on the beach (i.e. me), my younger son added a separate sign-up spot for cheerleading for any parties looking […]