Vesuvius At Home

Yesterday my sister called me to say a swarm of bees had arrived in her lilac bush and two hours later, she had hived that swarm. I sp...

This morning I was so tired that when Indy held up a pair of zip ties cut off a bike helmet and said, "Look mom," I said "...

Just last night my husband rolled his eyes at Glee, and its pretentious mourning of Whitney Houston, and I scolded him, and told him rem...

What I didn't say was that Monday, I woke up in a black mood. There was no reason for the mood. I went to bed feeling fine and woke up w...

In the midst of the Broncos game I swore, jumped off the couch, and ran to the oven, remembering the chocolate chip cookies that had been in...

Yesterday they said it would hit one hundred degrees. Today I wake to clouds and thank the stars. I've got a nasty cold and the e...

Ayla used to ask me to tell her stories. She had her special requests. "A mermaid--a purple mermaid with a sparkle tail--and a prince, ...

Nine months ago, Ayla couldn't write her name, or read. She didn't have any friends. She didn't know about cup-stacking, or Pavl...

This is how it went: Indy came home from preschool and told me that her teachers had spent all day trying to find Plants vs Zombies fo...

Ayla Beloved sisters we shall call it a hike. I did a review of Jean Kwok's "Girl In Translation" for Blogher here . I don...

In news that is of interest to my mom today: Ayla is home sick because she and a classmate decided to re-enact some Chris Farley or Adam San...

Indy looked in the mirror and said, "Mom, I'm getting lots of freckles on my nose because I eat so much toilet paper every day....

We're driving home from school and three minutes into the ride Ayla discovers that the 3D glasses that came with her book order book abo...

It had been a quiet week in Longmont , warm and sunny, when the family V got into the mini-van, and drove to Ft. Collins, where it was cold ...

Indy and white blankie, in happier times. When I was pregnant with Ayla, my old college roommate hand-knit us a blanket. It was beautiful. A...

On Saturday, my sister was in labor and poor Mr. V had to go to one of those terrible work-related functions where he has to mingle with oth...

Yesterday: "Knock knock," said Ayla. "Who's there?" said I. "Interrupting diarrhea!" Well that's just ...

I keep trying to figure out a way to not have birthday parties for my kids without getting handed the worst mother of time and all eternity ...

The other day at the grocery store, Indy said something that I don't remember, and I said, "That's crazy talk!" And Indy s...