Life in the Land of Dreamy Dreams

This conversation happened while bringing the new Senegal into the house on Saturday:
Mom: Gotta work on a name now.
Alison: I was thinking Dewey.
Mom: (pause) Since when are you such a fan of the decimal system?
Alison: (slowly shakes her head) Mom, that’s just sad.

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Alison is in the “get another bird” camp, with a few caveats:
1)She wants to be involved in choosing the bird
2)It should be “friendly”
3)It should be “fun.”
4)She wants to be involved in choosing the bird
5)She’d like it to be more colorful.
6)She doesn’t think I should be so hung up on intelligence
7)She wants to be involved in [...]

Alison spent yesterday making me feel old. Not intentionally- not really- just by being a teen.
We had scheduled a tour of LSU in Baton Rouge- the start of her college search. And I kept wondering how the hell it was possible we had reached this point. How on earth can she be this old? (and [...]

Yesterday I opened my cabinet and realized Old Mother Hubbard had nothing on me. I haven’t been shopping in weeks, and it was long past due. Alison was rounded up and she gleefully got in the car, ready to spend my money.
Halfway to the grocery store I told her that although I know we’re out [...]

Mother’s Day was tough- trying to balance being happy about the whole Mom-thing vs. being worried about Nora.
But I awoke to many balloons Alison had heliumized and let loose in my room. She’d written notes on each one, and mysteriously told me it was going to be a “theme” day.
She insisted we drive out to [...]

I’m always amazed at the ways that growing up in the 80s continues to affect me.
I had a very different idea of what “prom” was, even though I blew my own off. Growing up in the era of John Hughes movies it always seemed like PROM, not prom.
Apparently, at McGehee, it’s clearly more of the [...]

It turns out that I’m not going to be spending the whole weekend in the Quarter. I took some time to go a little more carefully through the PyrateCon site, and discovered that, unlike me, many people take this quite seriously.
There are lectures and symposia all day long while the pillaging and misbehaving is [...]

One of the reasons we’ve been busy is company coming and going. My ex was here with his wife Stacy and their 1 year old, Alexis, all to see Alison get her class ring. It was the first time Stacy had been here, and they stayed in the Quarter, and unfortunately I didn’t have much [...]

I swear, this child has only two speeds: dead stop and molasses.
She is going to visit her friend at college for spring break and take a few tours. As her mother I am not 100% thrilled about this. I understand it’s something I’m going to have to get used to. I keep reminding myself that [...]

So, I can hear you wondering, with parades, escaping birds and the other myriad bits of nonsense going on, do you ever get any work done?
 YES, nosy-pants, I actually do. ThatVixen is up to almost 2,500 products, thank you very much, and it has been most educational.
I have to say that my new venture has resulted [...]