Ever notice how a cricket by itself is much more annoying than hundreds of crickets making noise together?

I was fine all morning and the whole time at the school. I thought it would be all good…that I had successfully gone through everything without any tears.

I always told myself I wouldn’t be one of those moms to write a weepy post about her child going to school.

According to one of those viral quizzes everyone takes on Facebook, I am a Grammar Master.

On Monday, I will not be corralling kids, dropping them off at two daycares, then sitting my behind in an office chair for 8 hours.

For a while now, I’ve refused to use these three words and hashtags. Because I’m just plain tired of hearing them, and I’m tired of them being misused.

So, the other day at work I was copy editing and came across the food item “black eye pea hummus.”

My inaugural blog post is going to be about my son’s first birthday – weird, right? Well, here’s how I see it.