Warning! They’re coming. Not the walking dead. Or the Boy Scouts with their popcorn. No, the Elsas are coming. All 5,082,367 of them. How do I know there will be so many of them? A couple weeks ago I took my daughter, 7, to a Halloween event. And then I almost lost her. That’s because she [Read More]
Mom, you look like…
Has anyone ever told you that you look like a celebrity? Every now and then, someone tells me I look like Princess Di. I’ll take it! Of course, every now and then someone tells me I look like Alice from the Brady Bunch. Hmm. But the other day my seven-year-old daughter told me I looked [Read More]
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10 Signs You’ve Watched Frozen Too Many Times
The other day my ten-year-old son went into the bathroom he shares with his sister and shut the door. I presume he had to take care of some business. Moments later, his little sister, age 7, came looking for him. She noticed the closed door, knocked on it, and sang, “Do you want to build [Read More]
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Why ‘Let It Go’ from Frozen Should Win an Academy Award
The 86th Academy Awards will be held this Sunday. Will you be watching? I haven’t watched the Academy Awards in their entirety since 1999. That’s the year that they voted “American Beauty” the Best Picture. I thought that movie was terrible, so I parted ways with the Oscars. That said, I do love to check [Read More]
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What’s in a Name?
I was in the car with Sydney, 5, and we found ourselves discussing the Disney princesses. Mulan came up. “Mulan is a funny name,” said Sydney, wrinkling her nose. Eeek! My daughter’s a racist! I automatically thought in a split-second. She’s offensive to all Chinese people because she’s dissing Mulan’s name! I need to teach [Read More]
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The Halfway Mom
I usually make fun of myself on this blog. I point out how inane things like my son talking about his butt, or my daughter loving the Disney princesses, reflect back on me as a bad mom. I mean, really, butt talk is NOT classy nor are the princesses the healthiest role models. My husband [Read More]
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The Bad Dad’s Princess (Disney Week)
If you’ve ever taken your family to Disneyworld, you know it’s both exhilarating and exhausting. This, of course, means it’s the perfect setting for misadventures in parenting. Today I share the first of 3 posts stemming from my fam’s recent trip to the Happiest Place on Earth. Because I’m a genius (!), I declare this [Read More]
