Things that make me smile

The other day, when we were having one of those “Why is the sky blue?” discussions, I admitted to my daughter that I didn’t know the answer to a lot of her questions, that I would probably never know the answer to those questions, and she shouldn’t try to stump me before I’ve had my…

Yesterday my daughter said, “I love how your hair sparkles!”  Sparkling hair!  It must be that amazing new conditioner.  No, wait, I’m not using an amazing new conditioner.  I glanced in the mirror.  I looked like my normal self, no stray glitter from a craft project or anything like that.   “Hmm.  What do you mean?”…

My friend Marilyn over at Simmer Till Done is getting ready for her daughter’s Bat Mitvah and has been in a fever of baking and crafting for the past couple of weeks.  I ran into her at the coffee shop the other morning, where she taught me the secret of putting lists on pink paper so you can find…

The other day, I went to tuck my daughter in bed (she’s still young enough that she needs to be tucked) and discovered that she had taken a copy of my romance in with her and was trying her very best to read it.  Since it’s a short, sweet contemporary, I wasn’t worried that the content was…

The other day, my daughter and I watched Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium, mostly because the DVD was on sale and I’d promised her a new movie as reward.  I had no expectations of it, except that I usually like Dustin Hoffman and hoped it wasn’t another Ishtar.   As it turned out, Jessica sat in rapt attention the entire…