I almost forgot my March  10 on 10.  It was my sweetheart’s birthday and the kids and I had lots of fun things planned. Glad Alysha reminded me!
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The explanation: I learned about 10 on 10 from Alysha Gray  (in January via Twitter – view my January 10 on 10) and believe it was started by Rebekah.  As Rebekah says “take a photo once an hour for ten consecutive hours on the tenth of each month. document a snapshot of your life and find beauty among the ordinary things of your day.”
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Happy Birthday, MWD!

I have always loved dogs. When MWD and I were dating, I told him I would always have a dog; he took it like a man. There are benefits to having a dog that go beyond security and companionship. It’s hard to explain, but I love dogs. However, I don’t have a dog, I have a puppy and that’s a whole ‘nother show.
When my sweet Sadie died after sticking by me for twelve years, I told MWD we could have a dog break. We would wait until there were no …

I should be working on my current short story, but I want to share with you the journey of my soufflé.
Soufflé is gross. At least that is what I thought most of my life. It always looks and smells way better than it tastes and seems like a grown up food (which is bad, right?). In addition, I have a niece that was traumatized once by quiche (which to me is a better version of a soufflé) furthering my feelings. We cannot see that sweet girl without her asking me …

Sometimes I have these random memory fragments that pop into my mind usually triggered by some inane moment in my day. Usually I write a whole blog about them in my head working out the details of how to explain something so meaningless to other people in a way that would be interesting. As soon as I realize they wouldn’t be interesting to anyone else, I quit writing and it never makes it to paper (or computer in my case).  For a change of pace, I’m going to go ahead …

Right now I cannot stop from covering my nose with my hand and taking a deep whiff kind of like a sad imitation of Mary Katherine Gallagher after she pulls her hands from her armpits.  I’ve been organizing some of my things that have been cluttering up my closet floor due to the lack of storage in the new bathroom/closet area. I’ve put it off for a couple months and today I finally got sick of crushing items each time I pick my wardrobe. While milling through these things and …

I currently suffer from pill guilt and the only cure is facing reality. About 6 weeks ago, I started my son on a medication for ADHD called Vyvanse. It was a troubling verdict for me, since I have been judging and whispering under my breath about parents who do this for years. It’s true. I have friends and family members that I have thought negatively about for putting their kids on meds. The statement I have used most is that I think it is lame when parents medicate their kids …

My family made the 5 hour trek up from “almost Mexico” to see us for the holiday. It was enjoyable to have a house full for the feast and lounge around visiting with each of them for a few days. I cooked, shopped and walked with my Step-Monster (term of endearment). I almost beat my brothers at rummikub, but MWD creamed all three of us instead. Dad and I bonded through osmosis and we both drank coffee and surfed the net on separate computers in the same room. There were …

The other night both Emily and Noah started reciting all the lyrics to the SNL skit – Threw it on the ground.  Andy Samberg, I think. I let them watch it (except the end), but  I can’t believe how many words thew knew. I admit that I cracked up over this skit and watched it for days.  Telling my kids I was gonna throw their homework, dessert and clean clothes on the ground constantly. Hey – why are they some much better at remembering the words than I am?
Well I made them …

Today was kind of a breakthrough writing day for me. Mentally had some interesting new character developments (part of the planning), I got some specific research done on underground creatures AND I wrote the first thing that made me cry. I had to write a really sad scene and I have been kind of putting it off. I wrote it pretty quick since I had it all worked out already, but when I got to the middle of it, I just started crying. It’s funny, because someone else will probably …

This is an especially fun week around the Devers house, because both Halloween & Wurstfest (two of my favorites) take place. Personally, I am pretty big on traditions. I’m not sure why I care about it since we didn’t have very many when I was a kid, but the few we had really did it for me. Little things – like the fact that my Mom would always make a big spread of random unrelated snack food items on Superbowl Sunday. I didn’t even like football, but I loved the …