Next Thing You Know, He’ll be Shaving

I am not old enough to have a teenager. Am I?
My oldest is fourteen today. Holy cow. Fourteen. In this crazy state, that makes him old enough to learn to drive. He won’t, mostly because he has autism and will probably never drive, but I would not put a fourteen-year-old behind the wheel of a [...]

The Boys of Summer

Well, aside from the obvious, there are a lot of reasons why this summer has been kind of crazy at Casa Del Catie. One of those reasons is baseball.
The youngest has gotten to Little League age – D minor for those of you who know what that means. I don’t. At any rate, he went [...]

Just Call Me Shorty

It finally happened. I knew it would. It was, after all, inevitable. It’ll happen again, too. Has to.
Yes, one of my kids is finally taller than me.
Not that it takes much – I’m only 5′4″ and change.  But this morning – the last day of school – the husband insisted we measure the kids with [...]

Better Late Than Never

The last edits on Another Time Around are off to the final line editor, and galleys for Let’s Dish haven’t arrived. So today I finally find myself between projects. Which finally gives me the chance to talk about something near and dear to my heart.
April 2nd was Autism Awareness Day, and April is Autism Awareness [...]

Home Again

Well, it’s been one heckuva week. And then some, actually, but it looks like life is calming down a little here. As much as it can with three kids, a full-time job and a writing career. I do apologize for my absence this week, and I’m sorry I’ve been so criptic about my whereabouts, but [...]

I’ve Said This All Along

My kids hate me because I limit what they can get from Scholastic. I say it has to be a book, but you would not believe how much useless crap they still get.
From today’s Publisher’s Lunch:
Scholastic Under Fire for Selling Merch to School Kids
The Boston-based Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood is agitating against Scholastic again, [...]

Still Alive!

Yes, I’m still here, but busy. One week ago tonight my lovely editor sent me the final edit on Let’s Dish – and it was due before the end of the week. I just about panicked, but then realized it wasn’t too bad – just a few minor nit-picks.  So now onto the line editor, [...]

Happy Mother’s Day

Yes, I’m a day late and a dollar short. Nothing unusual there. But since yesterday was Mother’s Day, I thought I’d check in with my latest parenting revelation.
No, it has nothing to do with discipline or how to let a teenager know you still love him when all he wants to do is slam the [...]

Autism Awareness Month

Just a quick post to let you all know about a wonderful program through, of all places, VH1. Go buy this:

Support Autism research and get a really cool shirt, to boot. Now how cool is that?
UPDATE: Sorry, I have tried and tried and the stupid link isn’t working right. Go HERE to buy the shirt.

Harem on Wheels

My youngest is eight years old. Eight. How the heck did that happen? (Note: Come back to this in June when I’m having a crisis over the oldest turning 13.)
So Son #3’s birthday was actually last week, but the party was postponed due to Influenza A and B rearing their ugly heads at our house. [...]