Motherwise Cracks

I remember visiting San Juan Capistrano in California and hearing about the swallows returning every year on the same day. Very cool. My birds are returning to the nest this weekend (most of them) because I have an impending birthday to celebrate. From this mother bird’s perspective, it’s pretty nice. They basically kick me out [...]

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A few years ago my brother gave me the book “The Corrections” by Jonathan Franzen to read and he thought it was a great read. I thought quite the opposite. I received some corrections this weekend from my daughter who joyfully pointed out that she found three spelling errors on my blog. I could only [...]

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My son lost his iPod again. This is about number 4 on the list of iPod casualties. One was washed and actually worked after that for about a year and a half. We were all amazed. This is the first time that I really don’t care about his losing an expensive item. I don’t know [...]

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My son is back at his college dorm and once again, I am afraid to look in his room. One glance can bring on a deep depression, as deep as the pile of dirty clothes hiding 75% of his floor space. The thought of attacking it is akin to climbing Mt. Everest and I think [...]

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Just finished reading “Emptying the Nest” by Brad E. Sachs this weekend. It’s what prompted me to look around at my clutter from the kids over the years. As my nest is just about empty, I realized that while it’s empty of the kids, it’s full of the remnants of their childhood. As I desperately cling [...]

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Signs you are a sentimental slob manifest themselves when your kids are young but become a hindrance to a neat and organized home by the time they are college-aged. Be on the lookout for the following signs you are a sentimental slob: You keep wrappers from gifts (even plastic packaging). The area under your bed [...]

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A flood of memories washed over me last night as I read “Checking Up on Daddy” by Adam J. Roth. It’s a book that I think is a celebration of so many things; family ritual, shared parenthood responsibilities, the sing-song way we speak to our little ones. I could almost hear myself saying the phrases [...]

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For some reason I double scheduled myself on Parents Weekend at college and now my husband will be off on his own.  I am going to the Adirondacks with some friends, which is nice, but why in the world when I have a ton of boring weekends, does this particular one happen to be Parents [...]

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