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A Peek into Experienced Bad Mom’s Week

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It’s summertime and when I’m not busy sitting on my deck, watching the maple leaves gently blow in the breeze, I’m usually inside watching crappy reality TV like “Celebrity Wife Swap” with Barry Williams and Joe Piscopo. (The ironic part of watching that particular episode is that neither Barry nor Joe had wives. What the what?!) [Read More]

My Working Mom Story on Breadwinning Mama

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Did you  know that I juggle? Not with balls or bowling pins, silly! But the kind of juggle that most moms face and accomplish – the juggle of work, kids, marriage, activities, life, etc. Today I’m talking about my juggle as part of Breadwinning Mama’s weekly series on working mamas. Check out what I do [Read More]

Mom, you look like…

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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]

Motherhood is…

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“Motherhood is buying a shirt for your daughter that she tried on and loved in the store only to have her refuse to wear it at home because it’s too itchy.“ This was the status update I posted on my blog’s Facebook page last week.  So simple, yet so true. And there are many more truths [Read More]

4 Reasons I Prefer Summer Camp to School

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On Monday I dropped off my kids for their first day of summer camp. It’s a camp for school-age kids that’s run by the same daycare they attended as wee ones. They were so excited — and so was I. That’s because from my perspective, I love summer camp compared to school. Here’s why: 1.Time [Read More]

Five Life Lessons I Learned From My Dad

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I stumbled upon the cartoon below and knew it was perfect for my Father’s Day post: Indeed, if there was *one thing* my father always said while I was growing up, it was “Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.” Actually, this wasn’t the only thing he said. There were many other nuggets of [Read More]

As for Me and My House, We Like Cats

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If there’s one thing we’re crazy about in our family, it’s cats. (Okay, my husband would wholeheartedly disagree!) But my kids and I LOVE our cat, who’s sweet, soft and in his twilight years (he’s 17). We love him so much we took him to meet the Easter Bunny this year: We love him so much we [Read More]

Dress Up Your Baby Wipes with WipesWrap

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My oldest child will enter Middle School this fall. He’s over 5 feet tall, can roll his eyes with the best of them, and thankfully still asks for a good night hug. But it seem like just yesterday that he was a cute red-haired baby that changed my world. And needed his diaper changed. Thus, [Read More]

Summertime is for Weddings and Baseball

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We were a family divided this weekend. My husband and seven-year-old daughter flew to Virginia to attend a family wedding. My ten-year-old son and I stayed home so he could play in a baseball tournament. Nothing says SUMMER like weddings and baseball, right? And nothing says FUNNY like the things that came out of my [Read More]

Letting Go at Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

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Her small hand clenched mine as we wound our way up the hill. Forward. Left. Forward. Right. We were navigating the line to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad at Disneyworld.  My daughter, age 7, was not a daredevil and was hesitant to ride. But her dad, older brother and I believed that she would like it. [Read More]

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