My husband Cory is a cardboard genius. He's like MacGyver with some packing tape and an Amazon Prime box. I've got to start sharing photos of the things that Henry requests. Here's a printer/scanner. The lid flips up and you can slide a piece of paper...
I'm fairly certain that when I am very old, lying on my deathbed in some delirious state, tonight will be a memory I linger on. And I will know that I lived a rich, full life. We didn't have Valentine's Day plans. Usually we try to...
Maybe we evolved with Glens Falls, or maybe Glens Falls evolved with us, but it’s one of the two. My husband Cory and I had some fun in this little city in our twenties. We made some memories on South Street, the "Street of Dreams.” Though...
It felt like months went by without leaving the house, and only once had I ever tried it solo with both my three-year-old son, Henry, and my three-month-old, Daniel, and, well. You know how that went. This particular day, my husband Cory was going to work the evening shift...
I've known moms who quit their jobs after the first couple of days back after maternity leave. Heather Hickland, executive director of the World Awareness Children's Museum and fellow preschooler mom, emailed me that she remembered the first day was “always hard on the heart and...
On November 10, I gave birth to my beautiful baby boy Daniel using the HypnoBirthing technique. I wrote about it in my former column Family Time that ran biweekly in Glen Falls newspaper The Chronicle, but wanted to share an interview with our HypnoBirthing instructor,...
I'm a fan of New Year's Resolutions. I figure January's as good a time as any to set some goals, and to check in on last year's to see exactly how far I am from being a perfect human being. Here's my plan for 2016. 1....