Balent Times

Currier made this necklace for me and it almost made me cry.  It's gestures like this that help disolve all the times that kid drives ...

This morning I completed my last double digit run before the Savannah Half Marathon in two weeks.  Now it's time to tapper off and gi...

Tonight was Currier's final soccer game.  They had a great season and Currier did well.  I'm secretly thankful it's over.  I...

We met Rya's best friend, Riley, and her mom and baby brother at the Boone Hall Plantation Pumpkin Patch this afternoon.  The kids climb...

Rya's lunch request today was a "peanut butter and jelly sandwich cut into the shapes of dinosaurs, a shot of chocolate chips and...

Our neighborhood hosted a community wide yard sale over the weekend and the kids made a killing selling coffee, donuts and OJ.  We purged...

I ran the Oktoberfest 5K last Thursday.  My knee acted up big time for the first mile making me question, "How on earth am I going to...

Rya drew me this.  I said, "Wow, it's beautiful.  Is that a picture of me?"  She said, "No, it's your dead mother!...

Thirty years is a long time, but I remember every detail of that day like a broken Etch a Sketch which can't be erased. I was eight-...

Rya and Riley are taking ballet, jazz and tap lessons together while Margaret and I go out drinking and talk shit about people discuss t...

I love that Currier reads his own bedtime stories now.

The day I took Penny in as a foster (September 19th) I posted her picture on facebook asking if anyone was interested in adopting her.  M...

After a month off from running and a cortisone shot to the knee cap, I was finally given the green light to ease back into marathon train...

Today was Ride Your Bike To School Day so I borrowed a jogging stroller and pushed Rya beside Currier on his bike.  It was cute to see a...