Come On, Get Happy
This month, the Today Parenting Team challenged me to write about what makes me happy as a mother and to define the strategies I use daily to find every day joy in the chaos of parenthood. As I...
View ArticleSocial Death By Chocolate
Let’s face it: we all know by now that I like to have a good time. I might have even paid my college roommates large quantities of money to keep their traps shut about our escapades and I thank GAWD...
View ArticleThe Girl Behind The Make Up
“Mommy, why are you putting that brown stuff on your face?” The question comes from Fruit Loop #2 as she sits on the counter of the bathroom, watching me get ready for an evening out with Hubby. I am...
View ArticleMother-In-Law, My Friend
When a group of women get together, inevitably, complaints will start flying. They will lament about their thighs, crow’s feet and grey hair. They will bitch about toddlers who refuse to use the potty...
View ArticleMusings From A Sleep Dictator
I am a member of the Today Show’s Parenting team (I don’t want to brag buuuuuuuuut, I’m a TOP CONTRIBUTOR, thankyouverymuch) and this month, they challenged us to discuss a topic near and dear to my...
View ArticleI Hear Voices
I can still see her as she barreled in the door on a bright Fall day, ponytails swishing, a jumbled mass of pink, mismatched stripes and costume jewelry. She was fresh out of school and had sprinted...
View ArticleH is For Halloween
As most GenXers will tell you, Halloween as we know it today was a lot different when we were kids. A LOT different. The candy choices were limited to products made by Hershey and Mars, we were able...
View ArticleSo…..Why Do You Have A Blog?
Everyone always asks me, “What made you decide to start a blog?” And I always answer, “I have no earthly idea”. But, that’s not entirely true. As I kid, I always loved to write and my mom likes to...
View ArticleThe Day The Lights Went Out On Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is a big deal around here. Huge. I plan for months. MONTHS, I tell you. I scour Pinterest for the perfect recipes and I painstakingly keep my meticulous lists from year to year to make...
View Article7 People From Hell At The Holidays
The holidays are HERE. We are in the trenches. We are hall decking. We are cookie baking. We are loading our eggnogs with massive quantities of booze. With every shot of spiced rum, we are bracing...
View ArticleHer Smile Mattered
I met her on a September night in 2008. She had kind eyes and a smile on her small face. I was new at the whole PTA mom thing. She was a seasoned pro, the experienced committee mom. And she made me...
View ArticleHubby Doesn’t Need Training. He’s Not A Dog.
A few weeks ago, I was helping a group of moms get a classroom party organized. As we passed out holiday appropriate paper plates and organic snacks, we chit chatted about our days, our kids and of...
View ArticleIn Defense of Christmas
About a year ago, I realized there was a NYT best selling fiction author living in my town. I KNOW, RIGHT? I almost lost my mind when I realized that she was a mother and a writer just like me and I...
View ArticleIf You Get One, You Give One
I knew this day would come as I had been warned by those who had gone before me. He’s going to ask someday. She’s going to have questions. You need to get your story straight. You have to be *prepared*...
View ArticleOur Parents Had It Easy. And I’m Jealous.
The other day, I got the dreaded “Your phone storage is almost full” message and realized it was time to clean up my phone. Read: it was time to play “Press Your Luck” over which apps I could keep, how...
View ArticleTeam Toddler or Team Tween?
When you become a parent, there’s just so much you don’t know. SO. MUCH. And, in those first few years, you wander around deliriously tired, chase after little people who break all of your previously...
View ArticleThe Day I Realized I Shouldn’t Fix My Tween
On that warm summer night, as I caught a glimpse of Fruit Loop #1, I knew. He was standing across the yard, holding a plastic plate filled with summer party food and holding a red plastic cup. The sun...
View ArticleMy Apology: My Tween Can’t Say “I’m Sorry”
On a hot summer night last year, you defied me. You begged to be allowed to walk down to an ice cream shop with your younger sister in the small beach town where we were vacationing. “I’m twelve now,...
View ArticleDon’t Ask Me For My Babysitter’s Name. DON’T.
I’m a giver. I share better than any three year old. Really. Ask my friends. I give advice (almost never unsolicited), I give fabulous presents and I give of my time like nobody’s business (two words:...
View ArticleThe Seven People You Meet In Spin Class
I came to the world of exercise later in life. And, by later in life, I mean I had to start exercising after two kids, two C Sections and turning thirty because it turns out, when these things happen,...
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