MOMtivation

TweetI say it all the time: I am a word-nerd and I love it. I was not at all surprised to look up the etymological meaning of  mother and find that it is ‘breast-feeder’ (the English word mother and Latin mater and many similar maternal words contain the worldwide etymon ma ‘breast’ + ter an Indo-European agent suffix). Breastfeeding my baby girls was the most amazing [...]

TweetMother’s Day is a day chosen for spouses, children and everyone else to remember to offer serenity and show much deserved appreciation for all the hard work we moms somehow manage to get done. I know what you’re thinking: “Everyday SHOULD be Mother’s Day”… and it can. At least, it can feel like it is…and that [...]

TweetLast week was one of those weeks. You know, the kind in which you feel like you just want to GO HOME… Well, maybe that’s just me. With my whole family living in the Dominican Republic, both of my brothers having a birthday and my best friend’s birthday on top of that, you may understand [...]

TweetYou probably didn’t know that April 30th to May 6 is  National TV-Turnoff Week. I’m serious…really! I don’t subscribe to cable TV or miss it the least bit. We get DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs at the library FOR FREE and we watch them happily together. Sometimes I rent a romantic comedy and treat myself after [...]

TweetAs I start writing this post, I don’t know where I am really going. I may surprise you…and myself.  I have recently been attracting a lot of information about marriages that last over 50 years.  It seems like a formula and not a matter of being “soul-mates.” I saw a cute picture in which the [...]