I don’t call it Snooping. I call it Parenting. And the job isn’t over till they’re 21 and no longer a tax deduction and dependent on my health insurance plan.

Even then, I’ll have a role, just a drastically different one…

I know exactly where I was 20 years ago today. And the result is upstairs getting ready for summer college classes. I have no idea how this happened….

Wasn’t it just yesterday when Scott and I, married for a year and naïve,…

Surely there is a 12-Step meeting for this too. Every week, sometimes daily, I’ll open my e-mail to see, “Someone sent you a greeting card!” and think, “Again? I don’t have time for this. I haven’t even read my e-comics, LOLCats,…

I needed to pick up my daughter from Alma’s house and I was nervous. Alma’s my idol. I’d been worshiping her at the bus stop for months, but since we’d always swapped kids at the corner, had yet to step into her…

The good news about having older children who can drive is they can do the grocery shopping for me. The bad news is, they can stop by the grocery store on a whim whenever they need to. Say, when they…

It’s not for weak hearted. Truly. It ranks right up there with bra fittings and trying on bathing suits in fluorescent lit fitting rooms after a winter of couching it and a Lent of sneaking Thin Mints. Shopping for the…

Don’t even think about it! Don’t look at them. Don’t discuss it. And for the love of all that is holy do not buy them for me! I don’t care if it IS Mother’s Day and you, my most adorable children,…

“You can find these moms just about anywhere, in Hollywood, in the White House — probably in the house next door.”

Duh.

The AP article deemed so newsworthy in our ever-shrinking print newspaper it garnered front page/color photo coverage, claims the current…

We scoffed at the "experts" and their books. We rolled our eyes at our in-laws. We were ready for children. We were going to be the best, most prepared parents in the world. Why? Was it the Mommy Manual the nurses…

So I’m packing for the airport yesterday and my daughter Melanie, minutes from bolting out the door for another rousing day in the life of a junior in high school, comes in holding Geek Charming (by Robin Palmer, author of Cindy…