Number 7 has been having some separation issues in the mornings when I drop her off at preschool. I have no idea why. Every day with her is kind of a crap shoot. So I’ve been giving her a reward on the days when she goes right into her classroom or outside onto the playground without […]
Archives for December 2015
Koselig
I am nearing fifty years old. Fifty! I don’t feel like a near-fifty-year-old. But that’s not the point of this post, really. I detest winter. And I have spent the past forty something years dreading it. Complaining about it. Hating it. You know how many total years of dread that is? That’s more than twelve years. […]
Eurolux Salon and Day Spa — They take care of you from head to toe.
If you’ve been around for a few years, you may remember how for Number 4’s 7th birthday I took her to have her nails done for the first time ever at Eurolux Salon and Day Spa in Brookfield, and how they did it all for free and then they surprised her even more and also […]
Kindness Is A Muscle
A couple weeks ago I wrote this post about how I was going to start each day off by complimenting the kids. I’ve been pretty consistent about it. I’ll be honest. At first it was a little uncomfortable. It was just such a foreign thing to do that I almost had to force myself to do it. […]
What Your Wife Wants For Christmas
When I was a kid, my well meaning dad got my mom a white blouse for Christmas. Every single year. By the time I left for college, my mom had 17 white blouses in her closet, and she never really wore any of them. In an effort to save you well-meaning husbands from stressing over […]
Not Your Average Weekend. I slashed the prices. And now it feels right.
A couple years ago I had this idea to hold a weekend retreat for women, and in particular, moms. The idea turned into a vision, which turned into a dream. And last year the dream became a reality when the first annual Not Your Average Weekend was held at the Interlaken Inn the last weekend […]