After the excitement of ringing in the New Year, many of us are faced with the January blues. The festive feel of the holiday season is gone and the winter days can be gloomy. However, there are tons of days in January that offer something to celebrate. Whether it’s enjoying food, honoring animals, or just [Read More]
Forget Christmas, I Want A Hallmark Movie Winter
It’s that time of year again. Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas. Wait. Isn’t it ALWAYS that time of year on the Hallmark channel? I mean, aren’t they always showing Christmas movies and counting down to Christmas starting in, oh, January? No matter. I actually enjoy the sugary sweetness of their holiday movies. But they fill me [Read More]
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Things I Want To Complain About Part IV
It’s that time again, time for another rousing edition of Things I Want To Complain About! Here’s what’s been bugging me lately: 1. People who massage each other in church. On multiple occasions now I have sat behind couples who actively give each other shoulder and neck massages while in church. What’s up with that? [Read More]
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A Great Winter Workout for Moms
Step. Whoosh. Step. Whoosh. The stepping. The whooshing. Over and over. Incessant. It’s a memory that haunts me. Was I trudging 7 miles through the snow to school? Working in a factory? At a step aerobics class (do they even have those anymore?) No. I was blowing up my son’s battered snow tube with a [Read More]
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Are You Smarter than a 5-Year-Old?
Yes, that sort of looks like a dunce hat on my head! I have shared that I went to a high-falutin’ university and even got an international scholarship for graduate study. But motherhood doesn’t care how smart you are. And neither do your kids. Sydney turned 5 in December. I think that she is ready [Read More]
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Winter Wonderland
We had our first snow today in our little corner of the world. There’s nothing like snow to make you feel like a bad mom or dad. That’s because my thought is always, “Please don’t snow enough to make it a snow day.” And I bet this morning bad moms and dad all over metro [Read More]
