I am so, so bad with death.  I don’t know what my problem is.  Really.  I feel like everyone else knows how to handle it so much better than me. It’s like I missed that course in college when everyone learned what situations are appropriate for you to cry over and when it’s fine if you don’t, how to help someone who’s dealing with it, what to say to them and when all you need to…

Jonah is one of those people that so badly wants to give the best gifts to his family and friends on their birthdays.  It’s super cute how much thought he puts into it, how excited he gets when he thinks he’s landed the all-time greatest idea, and the way he loves to surprise them with it…waiting patiently to see their reaction once they open it. But, I’ve always told him that thing that my parents told me…

I took the kids to this gorgeous playground in Wellesley yesterday.  I love this place because it’s spread out really well, it’s well-constructed, there’s a very clean bathroom inside of the recreation building, parking’s easy to find, there’s a good crew of caretakers (parents, nannies, etc.), there are structures for little and bigger kids, and it’s just kept really clean…which is surprisingly hard to come by when you’re talking about playgrounds. This is actually down…

  Jana Karr…who is now married and goes by Jana Conway…I wish you the most incredible birthday ever. This girl, this beautiful girl who is now…today…a 40 year old woman, was my very best friend growing up. She was the friend that I did everything with: sleepovers in her water bed because no one else our age had a water bed, weekend trips to our summer home in Connecticut, cheered with for Wappingers Falls Middle…

I know this sounds terrible to say, but sometimes it’s almost frustrating how badly I want to prove Ben wrong…but, I just can’t. He’s just right. Like, for example, with his latest focus being on how multi-tasking is a weakness. He talks about how multi-tasking is usually something people try to do, employers try to get their employees to get better at it, we will sometimes even sit down and figure out how we can…

This comment is going to sound ridiculous coming from someone who writes about her personal life on a blog every single day, posts pictures of every facet of her life on Instagram and Facebook, and may or may not have a video somewhere on Youtube of her acting like she’s a Fly Girl doing a choreographed dance to Salt N Pepa’s Shoop: you can make yourself look like just about anyone you want to look like on…

Well, Ben’s got me convinced there are zombies. In his defense, which I’m really just saying to strengthen my own argument in a few minutes, he hasn’t so much said the words, “Heather, there are zombies.”  BUT, he has made firm references to things that strongly imply their existence…or, at least the possibility of their existence. For example, we have an area in our home where Ben has a growing collection of things like flashlights,…