Sami Time

So on May 16 of this year I was laid off from the company I had worked at for nearly 22 years. My income was most certainly necessary to our...

Our Thanksgiving is just going to be Michael, Sami and I. As usual, my employer gives us a fresh turkey that is raised here locally – so it ...

So that was a long break from writing. Sami was super-duper (her current favorite superlative) sweet on Mother's Day. She builds up anti...

A family breakfast custom of ours that has evolved is bacon and eggs on Sunday mornings. And just to add a nice white trash element to it, I...

This morning both Michael and I were up early to prepare for a showing scheduled for 10am. Cleaning and whatnot before I headed off to work....

I anticipated how tired Sami was going to be after her first full day of Kindergarten, but I didn't anticipate that one almost-5 year ol...

I'm trying to pay bills at the computer. Sami has the tv remote pretending it is her office phone and that she's working. She encour...

Out of the ordinary and unlikely things seem to happen to me. Not big things, mind you. Just... unusual things. Take this for example. About...

So yesterday we're in the car just backing out of the garage to run to the grocery store, and out of the blue she says to me, "Mom?...

I'm was at work and stepped away from my desk for a minute, and when I get back I was given the following message from Amanda in my offi...

Yesterday. Me: (getting ready to spray my hair with hairspray) Her: Yes, Mom, you need that spray because your hair is 'up.' (Meanin...

Weekend before last, Sami was invited to her first birthday party of one of her little pre-school classmates. The parents threw a lovely lit...

Michael (forgetting little ears listening...): So are you buying me lunch today? Me:Yes! I'd love to go to lunch with you. (pause) Sami ...

I have "things" going on work-related that are attempting to erode any sense of creativity or fun or joy in my days. But I had to ...

This was the first Christmas since Sami was born that Michael didn't have to work on Christmas day. What a treat! Our Christmas was simp...

Whew. Um. So I kind of went missing for a few months. Just. Busy. Our house is on the market, and precluding that was much time spent sortin...

I've allowed a horrible gap in my posts here, but undaunted I shall simply pick up in the present so as not to delay myself further by t...

Daddy bought Sami Crayola's Color Explosion thingie, and in it comes a pad on which she outlines lines with a clear marker and colors ap...

The other night as we were waiting for Michael to come home from work, I was watching the tail end of the Miss American Pageant. I know, I k...

Oh marketing people at Campbell's, you are savvy, savvy folks what with your Dora and your Shrek and your starry, starry soups. Now ther...

You are now 3 years and 3 months old. And you are probably the funniest person I know. Both on purpose and not on purpose. You are sometimes...

I can't let myself get so intimidated by having not posted Sami stuff in a timely fashion in like, forever. It builds up and makes me ke...

So, the other night Sami was in our bed and in the middle of the night she had a whimperfest where it is one of those where she's semi-c...

A conversation in the car after we had to pull over on Colorado Blvd. for an ambulance to go by, sirens and lights blaring: Sami: That'...

Me (having just gone #2 in the basement bathroom then discovering I had no toilet paper (Michael wasn't up yet): Sami! Com' 'ere...

And look at this photo I found while poking around on my hard drive... Eeek! Doesn't my dear husband look so very sexy here? Why does he...

On Saturday, Sami and I went to Big Lots for, um, let’s see – what would it have been? Oh yeah. Birdseed. We hung up birdfeeders in our back...

So Michael had to work on this his Father’s Day. But we tried to make the best of it. We got him two boring shirts that he seemed to act pre...

After Sami woke up from her nap, I go in to get her and she says, "Mommy? Raindrops are falling down." Me: Yes Honey. It is rainin...

My work is done on this second work-from-home day this week. And it is lovely and cool and raining outside my 4 open windows (after being a ...

The past 3 weeks have been chock full of …what. Life I guess. Good stuff. Just chock full. Well, mostly good stuff. Except for the fact that...