Mom asked me yesterday for a notebook because she wants to list the 10 things she hates about the hospital - a good sign, this is the first ...

A friend asked me to guest blog for her 31 blogs in January series.  I said yes a few weeks ago as we caught up for 2 hrs on the phone in a ...

-I haven't posted anything since January of 2015.  A year and 4 months, that's a lot of life that went lived but undocumented.  That...

The Buckeyes will meet the Ducks today in the college football National Championship.  Our whole family was all dressed in Buckeye gear this...

That's it.  That's my New Year's motto for 2015. I can outline my goals and my lists and my wishes (and believe me, you know I...

by Elane Dickenson, my mom  (All of these are so sweet, but I bolded a few of my favorites, the ones that touched or made me laugh) ...

Based on the way my coffee treated me, I should have ended it, I should have been prepared for last week to suck a little, but I didn't ...

Getting out of the house on a Monday morning is no small feat.  Addie left mad at the world because I somehow lost her jog-a-thon envelope t...

The summer is coming to an end.  In fact, I sit here on Friday at 5pm, Labor Day weekend in front of me, and I cannot believe 1. The summer ...

Addie didn't want to ride the bus this morning, Lily did.  I said that it was fine for Lily to ride the bus and I could drive Addie to s...

he sits there.  in his pjs.  his bare feet are still plump with baby fat, and half a leg showing from the pant leg pushed up.  he looks inte...

This has been a really rough week for me.  I know I haven't blogged for a while.  It may feel like I'm talking from the middle, and ...

I'm sitting at my desk.  The last business day of the year.  Accounting hell, normally.  But today was slow and steady and nearly done b...

I think about this blog 2-3 times a week.  I haven't blogged since school started and it's Christmas break, and just because I don...