Growing up, I was the kid who did what they were supposed to do. Ok, I didn’t always do my homework … and my room wasn’t always perfectly...

He asked me to ride with him. I said yes, though inside my mind was spinning like a hamster-driven wheel. When school started up this...

I’m back! Did you miss me? Wait. Don’t answer that. You’re here now and that’s enough for me! Any-who, though I have strayed from my...

I am not yet an empty nester. We have a good 4+ years before that happens. Maybe things will be different then, but my experience thus...

I have been scrolling through old holiday pics and generally mulling over things (with the focus of a sand flea) during this national...

We have all ventured into the room beyond tired. Eyes glazed and swollen, blurred images linger. Unspent tears, our own private jacuzzi....

I was going through a box of old pictures, as one often does when processing the loss of a loved one, and I came across a picture of the...

Drop-off was a little rough this time around. My Sun, as usual, wanted to do the whole thing alone … with me in the background. “Mom (not...

watching them head into the unknown can be excruciating It’s 4 am and I can’t sleep. It could be the altitude. I’ve read that...

A short while back, I caught a glimpse of my reflection while frantically scrubbing water spots off the sinks to ready the house for yet...

The sky grows dark and the sirens sound. My first move is to call out for My Sun and LM to gather the pets and herd them into my closet,...

It all started with the ladybug cake. I was a fresh new mom with My Moon about to turn one. She needed a special cake to mark the...

I was in the kitchen working on a kick-ass post about some issues I am having with Little Man possessing a cell phone, when I heard a...

It’s their favorite, don’t you know, the path that meanders through the thorns, burs, and brambles, the one full of ticks and chiggers,...

credit to Natalia Slastnikova Scrolling through my emails, I noticed one from the ACT. The subject line read “Important change to your...

This is kind of a difficult post, especially given the fact that so many things are happening all at the same time (from massive home...

This is not a drill. Covid-19 is in the house. Despite all our efforts, it breached our unfinished walls and was confirmed with a swab. I...

Broken Since my last post, Quarantine Ghost http://themoonthesunandlittleman.com/2020/05/10/quarantine-ghost/, I have attempted to write...

If you follow my blog, you may have noticed that some time has passed since the last post, when I began drifting threadless...

I’ve been thinking a lot about marathons. Oh… I am not planning on running one any time soon … or even training to run one. I have...