Of all the holidays we must partake in, I think parents with kids aged newborn to five-year-olds should simply opt-out of Halloween. At the risk of being a massive…
Ah, fall. The crisp cool weather. The turning leaves. The fun of getting my sweaters out of storage. That all sounds nice. One problem: I live on the center…
Among the latest Internet hate-fest rampages is the subject of autumn. I don’t get it. People seem to have lost sight of the fact that pumpkin spice lattes…
April 11, 2015 was my daughter’s fifth birthday party. In the pictures from that day, I am wearing a knee-length fluttery skirt and an aqua tank top. I…
“Mommy, daddy said a bad word! “Mommy, daddy was driving really fast!” “Mommy, daddy stuck out his middle finger at a guy who cut him off and he…
“I have so much to get done before school gets out.” I’ve been hearing this a lot lately from all kinds of moms – full-time working moms, part-time…
Strap yourselves in. This may take a while. In no particular order, here are some things that make me want to move to my own planet. Cat Haters…
When my daughter Sammi was just over a year old, she had surgery to repair a congenital heart defect. After the worst of it was over and she…
Who’s got the winter blues? For me, the slide down begins after the New Year and steadily declines building rapid speed from there, falling into the pit of…
I am a Christmas person. I don’t love eggnog, but I love everything else about Christmas. We believe in Santa. And Jesus. The Santa and Jesus combo on…