Sunshine and Darkness
My granddaughter, Little Tweetie Pie came over today. Spending time with that adorable six-year-old is always entertaining. In her, I get to see facets of the personalities of many of my loved ones. Little Tweetie […]
Parenting
Dreaming in the Sunshine
When I was pregnant with the first Impossible Miracle, I had a dream that I foolishly shared with my sister in the presence of Sunshine. It was a typical dream, I think, for pregnant women, […]
Control the Crazy, Sunshine!
Everyone has buttons that can be pressed to make them angry, frustrated, or enraged. I’m usually sent into fits of rage whenever my mother says something less-than-flattering about my children. I am probably quite typical […]
Big Fat Rays of Sunshine, Part 2
We were all fat in Sunshine’s eyes. No, that’s not true. Lynne and I were her fat daughters. Straighten Up! and The Tempest were extra thin, thus they were spared the fat taunts. They were […]
Soaps and Sunshine, Part 2
Lynne is right, Sunshine loves her soap operas. No, she LOVES her soap operas. And CNN. And talk shows. And television in general. Me too. I love TV. No, I LOVE TV. I always have. […]
Soaps and Sunshine
For someone as obsessed with the imagined sexual behavior of her young daughter as my mother was, Sunshine was remarkably unconcerned with the sex education I got from her favorite soap operas. She was a […]
Do You Know What the Vagina Is?! Do you?!!
The Mayo Clinic advises that when it comes to menstruation, it’s important to begin explaining early. They say the sooner a mother starts talking to her daughter, the better. Don’t teach by way of The […]
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