My Shoestring Life

This is a toy that gets played with everyday, more than once a day at my house. And I have long ago given up getting frustrated by their presence in between couch cushions, under arm chairs and abandoned on the kitchen floor. I have decided to cohabitate with them although at times they are unruly. [...]

Why do moms flock to McDonald’s like moths to a flame? It is a unique phenomenon, how one restaurant can attract moms and kids from every walk of life. It must be the french fries.
My last visit to McDonald’s, I saw someone I knew long ago and instead of playing the high school reunion [...]

I sent my first love note in my son’s lunchbag today and considering he is just 5 and can’t read, I got creative. It looked something like this:

When he came home, my very creative you-can-read-this-if-you-try note wasn’t in his lunchbag. I asked him if he had found anything special in his lunch today. He said, [...]

There’s something sort of monkey-on-your-back-like about blogging. There are times I feel this nagging feeling in my gut when I haven’t blogged for a while. Then there are times when someone I know tells me that someone they know just started reading my blog and loved it. That makes the monkey on the back feel [...]