The only thing my youngest son wanted for his birthday last week was a snowboard. He learned to ski when we lived in Utah, starting his first official lesson on his fourth birthday (you had to be four, and he lucked out, that his birthday fell on the day the mountain opened). He saw his […]
Continue ReadingLast weekend we bought a GMC Suburban. My husband is overjoyed. He (with his four brothers) grew up in old Suburbans and he sees them as trucks that just happen to hold people too. He’s never been a true ‘truck’ guy, but offer him any old beat up Suburban and he’d look like he’d won […]
Continue ReadingMy husband and I are in the middle parts of parenting still. We have two children who recently left home, one to her own apartment and one off to college, but we have two still at home. The youngest is in elementary school. So we have a bit of experience under our belt (although never […]
Continue ReadingA few years ago we were in a major life upheaval. When Halloween rolled around, we had just moved our gang of kids across the country, from Utah to New York, bought an old house, and were halfway through tearing it up, so we could build it back right. We had no kitchen, just a […]
Continue ReadingI had just finished sending my hubby an email at work, asking about something exciting, like open season on health insurance enrollment, and I realized I’d signed the email with my first name. To some people this would not be startling. I would guess some people sign their emails to spouses (and boyfriend/girlfriends) with their […]
Continue ReadingOne of the things I miss the most about working in a library is the picture books. I loved shelving picture books, because it meant I could flip through those colorful stacks of gems. I was thrilled when my fifth grader’s teacher recently added “2 picture books” to the list of his assigned reading. It […]
Continue ReadingFor most of my life I dreamed of having babies. The family joke was that I signed up to work in the church nursery the year after I graduated from it. I couldn’t get enough of ‘the babies’. As I got older I began having medical problems that led doctors to revisit the circumstances of […]
Continue ReadingIn the last few weeks we’ve been adjusting to our new life in Colorado. I’m down to having only two kids at home now and there are many days I feel like saying, “Where is everyone?” The fact I have a prosthetic leg hasn’t affected our transition much. But it does come up in the […]
Continue ReadingMaybe you’ve seen his website. Or maybe you’ve heard about him on Facebook. Maybe you saw my post about his amazing AT AT pancake a few weeks ago, here on GeekMom.com. And maybe, just maybe, you’ve been living under a rock,and haven’t been introduced to the newest thing since fancy cupcakes. In a word, it’s […]
Continue ReadingAre you ever craving just a bit of Star Wars in your breakfast routine? Leave it to our buddy over at Jim’s Pancakes to come up with this awesome pancake version of a Star Wars AT-AT. Watch this space for a review of his clever new book, coming soon!
Continue ReadingI’ve always been the crazy picture lady. I’m not ashamed to admit it. Every family has one. My relatives know my camera is always nearby, usually tucked into the front pocket of my jeans. They let me snap away, giving me grief every chance they get, but shamelessly enjoying the batches of pictures that later […]
Continue ReadingThe day my mom died I cried the deepest tears of my life. I was young, she was young, it was all very sudden. None of it made sense to me. While my patient husband cared for our two toddlers, I waded through the months that followed, and finally found a bit of sunshine the […]
Continue ReadingThe events of September 11, 2001 touched each person in a different way. Some cried. Some made drastic life decisions. Poems, essays and stories were written. And of course, songs were composed. I vividly remember driving to pick up my very young children from school one afternoon, not long after the tragic day, and hearing […]
Continue ReadingWhen you live with a pack of boys, like I do, people like Mike Rowe tend to be your heroes. The Discovery Channel is our go-to channel when the family gathers around the TV. We watch our fair share of Sons of Guns, Deadliest Catch, Mythbusters and American Loggers, but when it comes to mom’s […]
Continue ReadingI just got back from Best Buy. No, I didn’t drive all the way over to the black hole called ‘the mall’ to see the new technology in televisions or research the surround sound system my son is begging for. I schlepped my way across the wide asphalt parking lot to buy (drum roll please…) […]
Continue ReadingI’ve never lived in a coastal state, which means I’ve never really had to pay attention to hurricanes. Tornadoes? Growing up in Missouri, I knew all about tornadoes. But hurricanes have never been of much interest to me. Until last week. Even in Upstate New York, two and a half hours north of New York […]
Continue ReadingLeave it to the Lego folks to make going to the zoo even more fun. If you happen to be in the New York City area in the next two months, consider taking a trip up to the Bronx Zoo to check out an exhibit called The Great Summer Zoofari: A Lego Wildlife Expedition. I […]
Continue ReadingSeven years ago I chose to have my leg amputated because I was confident that the technology in prosthetics could give me a much better shot at an active life than my deformed foot ever could. Now that I’ve entered the world of amputees, I’m seeing more and more people making the same decision. New […]
Continue ReadingI’m not a person who was blessed with musical abilities. I grew up falling asleep to the sound of my mom pounding out Baptist hymns on the piano, just to relax after a long day of raising lots of kids. But I was so naïve when it came to rock and roll music that I […]
Continue ReadingIf you’re like me, you’ve often wondered what the inside of certain cartoon characters might look like. Tell me you haven’t watched Spongebob and wondered just how the heck his digestive system worked. Or taken a long look at Phineas and Ferb and wondered exactly what their skulls looked like under those odd shaped heads. […]
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