October 19, 2009

Salvaged

This weekend my mother-in-law visited and brought with her several tattered cardboard boxes filled with all sorts of odds and ends from my husband's childhood years--the missing years, as we have called them, because while a quick trip upstairs to my parents' attic will open up a time capsule to my childhood, Scott thought for a long, long time that all those boxes were lost--thrown out by a renter who had once used their family's garage and taken it upon himself to do some housecleaning.

October 5, 2009

Hugging tightly.

"Remember the day I was leaving the Boy’s Club and slipped on the ice," my husband laughingly asked. "Yes!" We giggled like goofy teenagers, reminiscing, turning the pages of our personal history.

But the more pages we turned, the less we laughed.

October 2, 2009

Jedi and Bono

We have exciting things afoot for the weekend! We'll kick things off Friday with the much anticipated (well, by one of us, at least) premiere of a new season of Star Wars: Clone Wars. L.'s been looking forward to this for weeks and weeks, and I'm not sure what he's most thrilled about: the new season, or the fact that he gets to watch a full hour of television on Friday night (our kids don't watch television past 6:00 pm, unless something really unusual is happening around here).

July 7, 2009

Thirteen

July is always a roller-coaster month for us. Not only is L.'s birthday at the beginning of the month, but our wedding anniversary is the day after it. And although we vowed not to let our important date be eclipsed by L.'s birthday, it's inevitable that it often is--not in a terrible way, mind you.

June 22, 2009

Twice lucky

I got lucky this Father's Day weekend--I had my dad with me for part of the day on Sunday, and my husband, of course, for all of it. I got to be my dad's daughter for most of the weekend, and to help my kids make the day special for my husband.

May 29, 2009

Man caves

My wife and I are starting to think about buying a house. Although it seems like a big decision, it's actually thousands of small decisions, all of which seem critically important. You have to think about the price, of course, and the location, but those are easy.

April 2, 2009

Hamburger Meat

“You don’t need an extra strainer to drain the meat,” I said.

Shouting bounced off the kitchen wall. It wasn’t about the meat at all. It was our personal idiosyncrasies; like water boiling at a temperature diffused in the air.

April 1, 2009

Words

Past words are daily neglected. Like the vows that a husband and wife exchange.

How does the phrase, “those special words that will marry you,” simply become a series of letters carelessly clustered into a sentence trying to reach an ending?

March 12, 2009

The mirror

My husband and I are a good team, and we're lucky in this. We work hard together and share the parenting challenges equally, and I think we still manage--most of the time--somehow, through the thick and thin of life's daily challenges, not to grow apart--not to let who we are as a couple become buried under who we are as parents.

January 6, 2009

PDA for parents

A few days before we left town for Christmas, I got together with a friend for coffee. While I sat waiting for her, and sipping a gingersnap latte, a young couple came in and sat at the table next to me. They were, to put it bluntly, all over each other. They sat elbow-to-elbow, hands clasped, whispering sweet nothings over their lattes, and every now and then they kissed in a long and lingering way.
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