Mindings

1. All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting “just one day without a crisis.”

2. Show me a good loser and I will show you “an excellent opponent.”

3.  “Attending a school program”  is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one time.  “You think you’re going to like it at first, but, the further you go, the worse it gets.

4. Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy “writing books” and “being funny.”

5. I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine “common sense”  and “anything.”

6. It is impossible to think of any good meal, no matter how plain or elegant, without “potatoes”  or  “a good dessert”  in it.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to “watching “Miss Potter’,”  tomorrow my plans include “grocery shopping (horror!)”  and Sunday, I want to “watch golf and NASCAR and do lots of crafting”!

. . . today, I gave birth to one of the brightest, most talented, most big-hearted people I have ever known.

Happy Birthday to my Daughter.

When one of your favorite magazines arrives bearing this cover:

Plus, on opening the issue, this greets you on the inside cover:

Just sayin’.

Watching the Tonys.

(Am I supposed to figure out how to make the trademark and/or registered mark??)

The show “Rock of Ages” — which is made up of songs from the Eighties — had my children all agog.  They tapped and clapped and whooped.  It was all so new and discovered.

That I was singing along with every song without missing a word, that I lived to and with the songs, didn’t register with them.

But, oh, the horror for me.