Sandy's Motherhood Blog: Food, Fun, Fashion

Most of my quirkiness is difficult to capture in a photograph. My quirks tend to be things like a hatred of talking on the phone, or a comp...

“Word” is a hard thing to put into a photograph. I thought about taking a picture of the word “Home” in a wall-hanging I have that says, “H...

Remember during “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,” when all the kids went trick-or-treating and listed all the great treats they got,...

According to the dictionary, “behind” has a whole list of meanings. It can be used as a preposition with five different meanings: at or tow...

The irony of today’s topic does not escape me: take a photograph of something that I wish I had. Well now, if I had it, I wouldn’t have it ...

It never ceases to amaze me how communication has changed over the last century. One hundred years ago, the majority of communication was e...

Yesterday’s Photo-A-Day was photo-centric rather than writing-centric, because I happened to take an especially artistic photograph. Today,...

Being a writer rather than a photographer, I usually use the Photo-A-Day topic as inspiration for making some point about parenting, or fam...

It just so happens that today is not only Day 17 of the November Photo-A-Day project, but it is also my birthday. I began my birthday ce...

Since I have small children, “play” is a large part of my life. My kids and I spend most of the day playing. We play games, we play with...

As the mother of two small children, the contents of my pocket and/or purse are varied and unpredictable. So when I realized as I was comin...

For dinner tonight, my kids had hot dogs and fruit. My son (who weighs just over 50 pounds) ate half a hot dog, maybe half a dozen grapes, ...

I am posting this a day late because, quite honestly, I just didn’t get around to it yesterday. And I may be cheating a bit by pulling out ...

As I’ve been working on this month of Photo-A-Day blogs, I’ve gotten into the habit of reviewing the next subject the night before, usually...

Six years ago this weekend, my now-husband whisked me away to New York City for a weekend of good food, good theater, and good conversation...

I love being able to have dozens, even hundreds, of books at my fingertips in the memories of my Kindle and my Kindle Fire. I was adamant...

(This story actually happened to a person of my acquaintance. Incriminating details have been changed to protect the turkey-traumatized.) ...

My favorite line from Fiddler on the Roof (and there are many – oh, are there many) is when Tevye is introducing his daughters to a guest ...

The most obvious choices for the subject “someone I miss” would be my parents. My dad passed away in 2003 and my mom in 2011, and I still mi...

Parents of small children deal with minor frustrations every day. Frustrations such as finding three left shoes but no rights in the child...

Music is an easy theme for me, since both my family of birth and my family by marriage are full of musicians and music lovers. My mother pl...

A lot of people I know have collections of things. Some friends of mine collect unusual and funny salt and pepper shakers. Several have col...

I have quite a few tables scattered throughout my house. Like most people, I have a kitchen table, a dining room table, and a coffee table,...

Considering that it is only a few days after Halloween, it’s practically a foregone conclusion that the subject of a photographic assignmen...

Today was my son’s 4 th birthday. In keeping with my family’s tradition from my own childhood, I let the birthday boy pick a design for hi...