I was at Costco earlier today. Now I am drinking. They have Christmas trees festooned with sparkly lights, reams of wrapping paper and boxes of dingle balls for…
This time last year there was quite the uproar over the Christmas carol “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” …because it’s creepy AF. But fear not, Christmas revelers, John Legend…
I’m not sure if you know, but giving a book is like giving a gift twice. Our little website here at BLUNTmoms is home to amazing authors, creators…
Holidays are pretty stressful on their own, but when you have to introduce a new relationship to your entire family, it adds a whole new level of festive…
I’m watching my seventh-grade son navigate digital learning. Not like it was at the end of the last school year, when the Los Angeles Unified School District (abruptly)…
To some people, a Christmas tree is just a tree. It’s something we put up once a year for 25 days or so. We slap some lights on it and…
Subjects labeled ‘urgent’ in bold, with exclamation points, and asterisks everywhere, flooded my work inbox, filled with unread messages, while I frantically scoured through my personal inbox. At…
The last time I remember enjoying Christmas was the year I got a tiny, not-quite-functional toy blender. (Its plastic blade could swirl water, but it was never going…
My daughter clutched her piggy bank tightly as we walked into the store. She must be having second thoughts. I’m a terrible parent. How is empathy and compassion…
Dear Santa, I know I’m a middle-aged woman who long ago stopped believing in you, but can I just pretend this year? Can I time-travel back to that…
By the time that the first week of November is gone, the world sends itself into a hyper-speed of everything holiday-related. Stores throw-up pounds of Christmas decorations. People…
The 2020 Holiday Gift Guide we all need this year, brought to you by the clever, creative, pyjama wearing, bra-less-haven’tshavedourlegsin8months BLUNTmoms. Our 2020 holiday guide will give you…
You read it right, there are 12 weeks of jingle, plinky, sparkly, ring-a-ding holidays. Don’t believe me? Okay, I get it, but we need to stop denying Christmas…
I have a plastic box with an airtight lid and it’s full of all sorts of baby memorabilia I’ve held on to for over seventeen years now. It…