Dear Shop From Home: I think it’s time to lay it all out there. I’m old enough to know “healthy” relationships take work, and you, my dear Shop from Home, have left me feeling unappreciated and neglected. I’m a mom and I’ve got a family to feed. That means I depend on “YOU” to get […]
I got a late start as a mom. My little girl was born when I was in my mid-thirties. When I show up at her school for classroom parties and field day events, some of her friends think I’m her grandma. The fact that many of their mothers are almost young enough to be my […]
This week, I had another “first” in the wild world of motherhood. After shopping in my local mall for a few hours, my almost pre-schooler, announced she had to “go to the potty right away.” Of course her declaration came just as my other darling child decided to throw the mother of all tantrums in […]
My family and I were invited to have Easter dinner with some close friends. We had been asked to bring dessert, so I set out to make a chocolate pound cake the day before. Simple enough. I’ve baked zillions of cakes over the years—baking is something I do for fun. But luck wasn’t with me […]
Frances and I were en route to my local hospital for a doctor’s appointment. It was a cold, December night and we had taken a cab to our destination. Once arrived, Franny lead me towards the front door of the building. She stopped midway, indicating something was in our path. I extended my hand to […]
I shop online: easier browsing, less hassle, no lines. It works great until it doesn’t. Or, more like…until I doesn’t. I add some items to my digital cart. I zoom in on the screen of my well-loved and well-worn iPad, deciding which items to save and which items to abandon. I tick off things on […]
I knew the second that man walked in the door! “Don’t worry, it’s just allergies,” he said. Allergies my ass! Fourteen years of marital bliss, trust me, I know the difference between seasonal allergies and the start of a head cold. I tried to play it off like I wasn’t worried, shoving my daughters to […]
Everybody has a bucket list, right? You know the things we want to do before we kick the bucket…croak…bite the big one? Well last night, I crossed one off my list. No, I didn’t skydive into some exotic location. Wait for it…… Wait for it…… I got to be “live” on the air for QVC’s […]
After the initial shock wears off when people discover I’m legally blind, the “tip-toe questioning” commences. That’s when a sighted person decides to ask me ten less offensive questions on their quest to get the balls necessary to ask me that one, burning question their dying to know relating to my disability. While, I’m pretty […]
About a month ago, I divulged some pretty unsettling health information to my Blind Motherhood followers. In the span of one overall crappy week, my dermatologist diagnosed me with alopecia (I’m now bald) and my cardiologist informed me my heart was hardening (I’m 36 years old with a 50-year-old heart). In the weeks since getting […]