Once a year, every year, I leave my family for one weekend in May.  I go to Philadelphia and become my alter ego, Rhaea Miller – US Rowing Judge-Referee, for 3 days.  This has been [...]

Dust. The only thing that makes me realize I haven’t wiped a single surface in my house in 7 weeks  is when my kids start practicing writing their names on the wood edges of our [...]

My brother-in-law recently gave my son an Atari 2600.  For those of you too young to remember, it is an AWESOME video game system from the mid 1980’s.  Yes, folks, that is before the turn [...]

When I was growing up, my mom always said that two kids were easier than one and four were easier than three.  In fact, every mom I have ever known that had multiple kids has [...]

While helping Rita and Ruby straighten their room the other day, I found a piece of paper that had an outstanding list written in Rita’s 5-year-old block letters.  It looked a little like this:
FUN THINS [...]

My Ruby is good at a lot of things.   Things come easily to her, especially spelling.  She knows how words go together.  She did not get this skill from her father.  Even at 41, he [...]

When I was little, I wanted to grow up to be several things.  First, I wanted to be a mom.  Then an artist.  Somewhere around 7th grade I spent some time wanting to be an [...]

Typically, I am the one in our family that comes up with clever little ways to manage our children.  At least I think they are clever.  Sometimes they are clever.  In any case, this time, [...]

I am a technology Nazi.  I have managed to keep video games, computer games, and most toys that run on batteries out of my house for the better part of 10 years.  When the kids [...]

My youngest daughter has a friend who carefully names all her dolls and stuffed animals.  She has a seemingly endless supply of appropriate names for things she loves, from Herold to Pinky, Belle to George, [...]