What Kids Need to be Happy

In many ways our kids aren’t that much different from us. They enjoy doing some of the same silly stuff we did as kids. I realized this yesterday while I was washing my car. Tyler was standing on the sidewalk looking down the street intently. I wondered what he was doing but only for a split second because with Tyler you never know what he’s up to. My street is only one block long so there’s not a lot of traffic and even less since Katrina. When we’re at the house Tyler likes to run to the end of the … Continue reading

Boy Crazy

My mother had two, my sister had three, and my brother had four! What did they have that I didn’t? Little girls. My family is abundant with females. I have seven nieces and they in turn had a multitude of baby girls. I, on the other hand, had one baby boy. He grew up and had two baby boys. When we took custody of two children, they were boys. A year later we took temporary custody of…one more boy. Five out of six of our cats are boys. My whole life revolves around the male psyche. In my teen dating … Continue reading