Major Meltdown
It is May and here we are 0 and 3 on the job hunt. Derek didn’t get a job that…
Continue ReadingThe Job Opportunity That Broke My Husband
If there ever was a perfect job for Derek it would be the University of Missouri. The college was located halfway between…
Continue ReadingGoodbye Sweet Baskerville
November 27, 2011 –we lost our sweet Baskerville. He was 10 days shy of his 16th birthday. Unlike Tisdale, we…
Continue ReadingMarriage Rough Patch
The summer was over and school was about to start. We were entering season three in Detroit. The season didn’t…
Continue ReadingJust Call Me Google
Moms are the human Google. Whenever anyone needs anything they go straight to mom. It goes something like this: “Mom…
Continue ReadingSometimes in life material just presents itself. I never set out to write a blog but life kept presenting me with one chaotic mess after another until one day I said, “I need to write this sh*t down or no one will believe me.” It all started when I married a college basketball coach and with that came the majority of my material. In our first seven years of marriage we had four children, two dogs, and moved five times. Let’s just say the family life of a college coach is not your typical Beaver Cleaver household. I don’t think June had to have her neighbors drive her the hospital to give birth. In addition to being married to a coach, our kids (due to the fact that they were always in the gym with dad) turned out to be pretty good athletes. When you raise athletes you are privy to another surplus of material – youth sports. From screaming parents to bench clearing brawls, I have seen it all. And finally, if that was not enough material knocking on my brain there was one last little piece I failed to mention. My husband had a very public affair that change the entire course of all of our lives. If anything, I want the reader to enjoy my story, laugh a lot, and realize that no matter what life throws at you, you can always find the humor and claw your way back to the top.