Warning – First World Problems Alert! I was laying in bed last night thinking about all the crap on my plate. I remember being a young girl and…
It’s fair to say that we are in the thick of parenting right now. (Paw Patrol is literally playing in the background as I write this.) Five beautiful…
He looks like my kid. Sometimes he even acts like my kid. I swear he’s mine. But last week when I asked him to please take out the…
So this thing called the “Back To School Supply List”… Is it just me or does it grow longer every year? I know budget cuts are all the…
My kids are teens. By now I assumed I wouldn’t have to plan every fricken’ moment of their schedules like when they were toddlers. Yet here I am…
Because I have a bad-ittude about being a summer stay-at-home mom, I thought I would share some of the not-so-fun ideas posted online by those got-it-together Moms who…
After spring’s wet embrace, every year I get seduced by summer’s sweet promises: Longer days! Warm beaches! Instagram-ready sunsets! Pool days! Popsicles for dinner! And then I remember…
When I was a little girl, my mother would make a futile attempt to take a short afternoon nap on weekdays. Always bored and often lonely, I would…
I was at an event once and was introduced to a woman who was prattling on about this being her first night out away from her kids in…
Teaching my kids table manners is akin to a badger teaching her babies to fly. I’m not saying I have no manners; I’m saying I like to not…