After three years raising our firstborn, an extremely active son, our family was blessed with a little girl. She slept like an angel. She was as sweet as an angel. She was so dear to us. Oh, sure, my sweet baby girl soon grew into a not-so-sweet toddler and preschooler, but really, I had no [Read More]
Deep Thoughts about my Son’s Laundry
The following is a refurbished post from a little while back. It still rings true today and fits nicely with this week’s Finish the Friday prompt, “The chore I hate most is…” Now grab your bottle of Tide, get out your dryer sheets, and come commiserate with me on my son’s laundry, the chore I [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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What I CAN Do
I have a background in Early Childhood Education. One of the best things I learned while doing my studies, and then teaching in daycare centers, was how to reframe a negative into a positive. For example, when I was little, our teachers used to tell us, “Don’t run in the hall.” Today, though, you’ll hear [Read More]
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Mommy Reality Challenge – Breaking Bads
I’m excited to be co-hosting the Mommy Reality Challenge for the next two weeks. It’s a casual, awesome, REAL group of moms who tell it like it is – no Pinterest or Facebook Super Divas here! My thanks to Jen at Jenerally Informed and Celeste at Leapfrog and Lipgloss for letting me co-host. Read on to [Read More]
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One of Those Weeks
Have you ever had one of those weeks when life is crazy, everything seems out of control, and you want to hide under the covers and cry or sleep? If you haven’t had one of those weeks, then stop reading and please visit another blog. If you have, then keep reading and commiserate with  me! [Read More]
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Because It’s All about the Bacon
Exhausted, I flopped at the table in the communal kitchen at work. My day had been stressful and I just needed a moment to myself. The November 2014 issue of Parents caught my eye in the magazine rack next to me. My kids are older now, 11 and 7, and it had been a few [Read More]
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Parenting Fails in Pictures
Supermodel Gisele Bündchen is making the news this week for her questionable parenting choice of driving an ATV while holding her infant daughter. Neither is wearing a helmet. Check out the picture here on the US Weekly page. This photo of Gisele’s parenting fail got me thinking about what photographic evidence there is of my parenting [Read More]
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The Snow Day Mom
My seven-year-old daughter snuggled closer. We were reading stories before it was time for her to go to sleep. This ritual in the evening had crawled closer to my heart recently. My ten-year-old no longer needed me to read to him and, as my daughter grew older, Â I realized how fleeting this part of the [Read More]
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I Love My Kids, But…
My kids have been out of school since December 20. They were supposed to go back Monday, January 6. However, Monday was a snow day and Tuesday was a holy-cow-it’s-never-been-this-cold-don’t-go-outside day. As I loaded some laundry into the washer on Monday, it hit me. I love my kids, but they are driving me crazy right [Read More]
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