I wake each morning to the sounds of the wind rustling (or beating against) the palm fronds at the tops of the trees that are level with our lanai. The sliding door has been pushed wide open, curtains back, to let in the maximum level of Hawaii to our generic but lovely hotel … [Read more...]
Ka’anapali Love
I'm often so busy Parenting (with a capital P, phrase lovingly coined by Alyssa Brennan) that I forget how flabbergasted I am by love for my children. Every now and then they will look at me in a certain way that makes my entire body vibrate with an overwhelming sense of … [Read more...]
God Bless Maui
So I just learned that Maui is the only one of the Hawaiian islands named after an ancient deity. Apparently the original human settlers, up from Tahiti, felt that it was the most beautiful and so deserving of a divine name. As I type this, the screeching and hooting and … [Read more...]
Mom’s First Flash Mob
Last week I spent about 24 hours at Disneyland for their annual summer presentation to the press. It is not as you would expect. It was no vacation. I was alone (until I met up with my fellow mom bloggers, WHAT UP?!) so that made it slightly easier but a little strange when I … [Read more...]
Lousy Anna
My husband has poison ivy. A horrendous, disgusting, pustulating case of poison ivy. He spent a week in Louisiana helping his mother care for her acres and acres of property and her house that had plumbing and electrical problems that, if we lived nearby, he could take care … [Read more...]