There’s a strange mood in the air at my house. Something’s . . . different. On the surface everything looks the same, but an odd calm has settled. It’s the first time in nearly two years there hasn’t been a child in the house. We left him...

Okay, I realize I am unreasonably excited about this. But . . . The Wiggles are coming! My almost-two-year-old loves them, and I have to say, it’s one DVD I don’t mind watching over, and over, and over, and over. The songs are kind of catchy, and...

My Sunday started and ended with me cleaning up “accidents” from our 14-year-old Lab. My husband thinks it’s our fault, that we didn’t let him out enough. That’s true -- he’s having a harder time getting up and down the stairs, plus he ra...