This one I made meself. Turkey, cheddar, red lettuce and mustard on Tomato Basil Foccacia. But the bread, that’s courtesy of Wealthy Street Bakery. Yum! The kiddo and I started off our morning errands there with a window seat and a blueberry danish. He was a terrific brunch companion. Sat […]

My cellphone rang at work today. That only happens on rare occasions. And, at work, it usually means one thing: daycare’s a callin’. And that, in itself, usually means one thing: Devin’s sick. Or hurt. (Well, OK, that’s two.) How lovely to discover that neither of the above was true. […]

Every time Devin gets a cold, it tends to spiral into breathing problems (most likely asthma, but we haven’t gotten to that diagnosis just yet). It took us and the doctors a bit of exprience to get to the right combo of medicines to deal with it. So anytime a […]

Taken this summer

Well, it had to happen sometime. And it’s been a-brewin’. My kid is 20 months old. With that age comes plenty of new and tres exciting stuff, ya know? Like first-ever temper tantrums at the bookstore. Woo hoo! You’d think that zipping up a coat to protect him from the […]

I’m starting out small. Finger painting is simple enough. But where to go from here? I’ve never been the crafty type. If he’d stop eating the tips off of his crayons, we could certainly handle drawing. Well, there’s also the fact that he doesn’t understand that you draw only on […]

One year ago today, at this very same time, we were heading home from Detroit Metro with Devin in tow. He slept all the way home — then stayed up all night long! I can’t believe it’s been a year already. It goes by so fast. He seems so grown […]

Yes, Dev’s in the hospital. We’ve been told that odds are that this is a minor thing, a treatable infection. The problem is that they don’t know what caused the infection, so they haven’t determined the antibiotic that they can use to target it. As long as the swelling remains, […]

On the bed in our hotel, 20th floor

Look really closely and you can see all three of us Does this ever happen to you? You plan a trip and look forward to it for weeks, then – BAM! – it’s over before you know it. At least we had a good time and have plenty of memories […]

I’m getting better and better at snapping pics of my guy, but I’m always trying to improve. So I asked Dawn, who’s taken some terrific children’s portraits, for any recommendations she might have for reading material on the subject. I finished the book in a sitting and put some of […]

Charming little boy that we met at the dog beach over the weekend. I wish Devin would gaze so easily into the camera. My tyke is busily checking out everything BUT the lens.