Sandy's Motherhood Blog: Food, Fun, Fashion

You know how, in spy novels, there's always some secret catchphrase or password that the secret agents use to identify each other, to de...

I am not beautiful. My features are not perfect and regular and symmetrical. They are not balanced and harmonious. They are not delica...

When I was a young, working single, I was surprised by how often executives had children’s art displayed prominently in their offices. The ...

Way back in high school, I jumped off a high brick wall and managed to give myself something that the doctor referred to as a “bone bruise”...

I don’t consider myself to be a particularly artistic person. I can’t draw a straight line to save my life; my attempts at a self-portrait ...

Rainy days can go either way in my house: whiny, cabin-fevered children getting into fights and complaining they’re bored, or happy childre...

To find a contrast in my life, I only have to look as far as my children. One boy and one girl; one brown-haired and one blonde; one carniv...

“Chaotic.” That one word pretty much sums up every day of my life for the past few years. Particularly recently. At this moment, I am attem...

I suppose this could be considered cheating, combining two days into one. And even though I was a couple of days behind, I honestly intende...

Do you remember when February and April vacation seemed to last forever? Do you remember when an hour blowing bubbles on the front porc...

When I married my husband, our finished basement was beige. Off-white walls, beige couch, dull taupe rug, light brown furniture, even the s...

My mom used to get very nervous and slightly flustered every time she was expecting company. After I was married, I was talking to her abou...

Since there are four people who live in my house on a regular basis, “four things” is a pretty easy subject. Actually, there are so many op...

The word “close” can be pronounced two ways, with correspondingly different meanings. Said with a soft, hissing “s” at the end, it is an ad...

The first Easter that my husband and I were married, he dug out from the attic a big Rubbermaid tub of Easter decorations, which included a...

My family’s usual morning routine is that my daughter wakes up first, turns on both the closet light and the room light (and often the CD p...

My husband and I have quite a few catchphrases that we repeat to each other on a regular basis. When we both say (or think) the same thing ...

I learned several new things today. One thing I learned is that popsicles come in many more varieties than they did back when I was a kid (...

My “vice”? The only thing about this topic that makes it difficult is the fact that the word “vice” is singular. Oh, if only I were afflict...

I’ve always been an avid reader. My mom told me that I learned to read well before kindergarten, and I don’t remember a time in my life whe...

The word “dirty” has many different meanings, but when you have small children, the most literal one is the one that jumps to mind first: “...

This entry is a day late because I spent the weekend in New York City with my husband celebrating our sixth wedding anniversary. It was a wh...

I don’t have a laptop computer, so close to 100% of my writing is done at my desk, in my office. And since the afternoon is when my son is...

Before my husband and I got married, naturally we discussed having children. Not surprisingly, he (who grew up in a family of three childre...

There are so many options for my favorite part of the day. I love waking up in the morning and hearing my kids playing and chatting togethe...