keep passing the open windows

One suggestion, maybe next time it should be set up like those speed dating events… Billy could blow the whistle, and everyone could move on to a new table. Morton Malaise sort of did this on his own, due to his chivalrous nature, constantly getting up so a tardy blogger could be seated.
I […]

Reagan ran into my bedroom last night and said “MOM! I’m 2/3rds done.” Uh? with what? “You’re two thirds done with me! I’m 12, I’m going to move out when I’m 18, so there’s only another 1/3 to go!”
If only it were so easy.
I vividly remember […]

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My always “with-it” friend Katrina sent me the obituary for one of our high school teachers, Mr. Hopp.
He had a wife and four kids, plus:
“Conrad graduated from Bradley University, earning his bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in education.”
“He was a licensed real estate salesman for five years with Ron Hodges Realty. Conrad […]

Friday afternoon, I received an email from my husband that said:
“I got fired today. I’m at home working on that.”
Yes, that was the sum total of the email, no explanation.
It was a really fun afternoon at work, knowing my husband just got fired, that we have little savings, and the kids’ birthdays and Christmas […]

A few minutes after dropping Reagan off at a Fresh-Soph football game she calls me, an urgent tone in her voice:
Reagan: “MOM! I’m at the football game!”
Me: “Uh, yah, I just dropped you off?”
Reagan: “And I just heard that Tay has a crush on A.!”
Me: “Well, it could be just […]

Last Saturday Reagan and I spent the day in Peoria, babysitting my nieces, shopping and running errands. At the end of the day we stopped at Campus Town and had Chinese food from the quickie super small take out place. Sitting at a table nearby was an early 20’s college student, we’ll […]

Me: “Reagan, what are you studying in Math?”
Reagan: “We are making scarecrows.”
Me: “For Halloween?”
Reagan: “No, for Veteran’s Day.”
Me: “Veteran’s Day?”
Reagan: “Yes, they point at the door.”
Me: “Uh…. Why?”
Reagan: “I don’t know.”
I think I’m missing a key piece of information and it really makes me wonder what my […]

Sunday at Flat Top Grill my daughter unwittingly paid me a compliment. We were writing our names on the little wooden identifiers for our stir fries, and I told Reagan I was going to write Paley McFlattington on one and we would see who they handed the food to, me, her or MarySue. […]