First of all, Happy Yom Kippur to my friends in the Tribe. I live across the street from a synagogue and I can always tell it’s a High Holy Day because I can’t get into my driveway for all the cars parked on the street.

And do you know what my Jewish Friends across the street [...]

Things are drying out in Atlanta. School is back in session. Thank any and all gods for that. And in every other house around here casseroles are being prepared. The southerners will not let their neighbors go without casseroles in a disaster.

The night of the flood Scott came home from helping friends move their furniture [...]

No. I have not quit blogging.

At the end of August I was launched out of a cannon (start of school) into an ocean (kid’s soccer) infested with sharks (construction) and smack into the face of the Perfect Storm (the floods.)

Atlanta is under water. You probably heard about it. I know there’s news coverage because I [...]

I’ve have several people email me to ask where I’ve been. I’ve been here. Dealing with this:

This is the time-sucking black hole of which I speak. And we laid sod last week. And when I say “we” I mean the lovely and speedy crew from Ecuador.

It’s supposed to be a drought tolerant species of [...]

I am VERY sorry to report that we didn’t get to go to Bubba’s house yesterday. This is what I get for building it up for a week. I’m being punished. I know there are Seven Deadly Sins but is discussing your in-laws on the internet one of them? Sheesh, karmic revenge. Back off.

Anyway, Parker [...]

Ok, no more caginess. The point of me introducing you to my in-laws over the last few days: This weekend we are going to my sister-in-law’s for a Labor Day Bar-B-Que.

I know. That sounds uneventful. But it won’t be. I mean you’ve met the players.

And now that you have a taste for what Bubba (my [...]

Yes. I said N.e.a.n.d.e.r.h.o.b.b.i.t. It’s a little word amalgamation I created to better describe my father-in-law the man that my husband’s mother is married to. You people have to know the Neanderhobbit so you’ll be ready for the reveal on Friday. The cliffhanger. Because if my pain isn’t funny to you people then I just [...]