The rain.

Here in Houston, we don’t get much of a Fall.  Two days ago, it was 80 degrees.  Yesterday we had a “cold front” come in, so it rained.  All day.  That’s pretty much our fall.  Rain.  And winter, come to think of it.
Anyway, yesterday Claire had two Halloween parties, so she was all dressed up [...]

You heard what?!

As some of you know, my kid brother is in South Korea teaching elementary school kids English.  This is odd for a few reasons.
One, he can bearly speak proper English himself.  Who decided that he was qualified to teach conversational English.  Those poor kids are going to go home saying stuff like, “It’s coo’ Dawg.”
Two, [...]

Oh that’s right.

Claire loves to dance.  I’m not just talking about jumping up and down, or spining in circles like most normal two year olds. Nope.  Homegirl can plié with the best of them.  She turns on relevé with her arms above her head.  And she loves (and I mean LOVES) to arabesque.  There was an episode [...]

Mikey.

Yesterday I watched my little brother board a plane (well, not really.  I actually watched him go through security [and get stopped because he didn't take his laptop out and put it in a seperate bin - even though I TOLD him to - OMG how is he going to survive without me to take [...]

Huh?

Most things about motherhood confuse me.  Before, I thought I was going to LOVE being pregnant.  It was going to be a MAGICAL time, I was convinced.  I would glow!  Then I actually GOT pregnant and found out that the pregnancy glow everyone talks about?  Is actually a fine layer of sweat.  I never knew [...]

One day, she’s going to teach ME. Scary.

When I was growing up, we had an old Macintosh computer.  Remember?  The one with the little green screen.  It was shaped like a box.  My dad is a huge computer nerd, so it was imparative that my kid brother and I learn how to use them.  In 4th grade, I gave my first Power [...]

Suck it up, kid.

While waiting for dance class to start, Claire and cousin Jane were warming up.  One of Claire’s favorites is to bend her arm at her elbow, then fling it out while throwing her body around in a circle.  One time Jane got a little too close to the whirling dervish and got smacked right in [...]

I am woman, hear me roar!

JR was in Mexico for work last week (No really, it WAS work) and of course all the appliances decided to go on strike.  The shower head broke off in the middle of my shower, the vacuum was so clogged it took me an hour just to clean it out.  Our dishwasher wasn’t working Saturday [...]

58 and still giggles like a school girl

My mother is 58 years old.  She’s always been fun.  In fact, I can’t remember a time when I hated (in the teenage angst, no-on-will-ever-GET-me-my-life-is-so-hard-WAH kind of way) (although I’m sure she could come up with some instances).  I remember being on the bus during a band trip when someone ran on an announced, “Cori, [...]

I have nothing to say.  For the past 6 months that I haven’t written here, I’ve come up with hundreds of ideas for posts.  Some of them were funny, some were introspective.  But now that I’ve allowed myself this space again, I have nothing to say.
Hopefully this won’t last long.