Life with Melanie

Are you a mean girl? I am. I am so mean. To myself. I’m not mean to anyone else—just me. I expect perfection of myself. At all times. I have to be super mom. And super wife. And super daughter, sister, aunt, Sunday school teacher, piano instructor, praise...

I am a Christmas Idealist. I don’t think that’s an official term, but I’m coining it. In my mind, Christmas is always perfect. All of my memories from Christmas’s past are perfect. (Heck, my husband actually proposed to me on Christmas.) My expectation...

Yesterday was Thanksgiving Day. It was a beautiful day of family togetherness. Everyone got along swimmingly (I’ve never quite understood that saying), the food was perfect, and it was just so relaxing.  As the day wore on and I settled onto the family...

Fleas. Our family pet, a Maine-Coon cat named Toothless, recently ran away. He’s a rather temperamental cat with a flair for the dramatic, so who can say if he has really ran off or if he just got mad at his humans for going on vacation and leaving him...