Since it’s the winter break, and we’ve been spending SO much quality time together, I thought I’d give them a special treat and let them watch the movie “Titanic.” At least, I thought it was a special treat. Turns out my children have much higher expectations of cinema than I do. After the movie was [...]

We were sitting at the table on Sunday morning, eating a big breakfast together as a family. As we went around the table, we each had a name a ride we were going to try at Disneyworld that we hadn’t ridden before. “I’m going to ride Maelstrom,” said TK. “What’s that?” asked GT “It’s the [...]

We’ve been very open with our kids ever since they were around 5 years old when it comes to the birds and the bees. Not only do they know the right terminology for everything, but they have a basic grasp of how the whole reproduction thing works. So, imagine my surprise when I asked both [...]

This morning, we awake to the sound of the tornado sirens going off in our neighborhood. As the children rubbed sleep from their eyes and shuffled into the laundry room with their pillow, TK and I set about trying to figure out if it was really happening. We opened the front door. Not a cloud [...]

One of my favorite moments from this weekend at BlogHer 11 was getting to listen to Indra Nooyi, the CEO of PepsiCo. One of the things she said (and I’m paraphrasing here) is that her mother always told her “to follow her dreams.” Inspired, I came back home after a long flight and hugged on [...]