Imagine if you will, two young girls, best friends since just before kindergarten. Although they do not know it at the time, this will be one of the last times they will spend in this perfect harmony with one another. Soon they will both go off in separate directions and will no longer be this [...]

The little girl whirls into the room, all sunshine and roses, kicking up dust motes as she becomes a pocket hurricane, a very small sonic boom. She tells her mother all about her day, her words tumbling and jumbled together, as thoughts vie for importance with one another. Soon she stops for a small sip [...]

Every family has at least one costume that makes the rounds, handed down from one sibling to the next and then to the other branches of the family tree, washed, patched, mended and used until it falls into complete rags. Pairs of jeans with so many hem lines snaking along the bottom cuff that it [...]

Well, she is my child, I have to admit. Is she going to bother with social graces or trying to use manners in certain situations? Will she ever learn to filter the thoughts that she thinks before they become the things that she says? As my child, I would think that the answer is no [...]

The Queen of Halloween moved into a new home over the summer- the old castle was falling in on the Queen’s little blonde noggin! Trust me; there is nothing more exciting than figuring out how to decorate a new place and the Queen has gone all out. That being said, you can imagine that there [...]