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How to Savor the Holiday Season at Home

December 7, 2020 By Katy

This year the holiday season may look different. Masks and social distancing have put a damper on the usual gatherings at schools and in our communities. My own kids are sad that holiday concerts and our town’s parade have been canceled.  But there’s no need to be filled with despair. After all, it is still [Read More]

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Itty Bitty Things I’m Thankful For During This Strange Time

November 8, 2020 By Katy

November is the month in which we give thanks in the U.S. But what do we have to be thankful for this year? It’s been a doozy. However, sometimes during this strange time it helps me to think about the itty bitty things I *am* thankful for. Because being thankful about even the small things [Read More]

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10 Things This Freelance Writer Wants You To Know

October 25, 2020 By Katy

I started my freelance writing career in 2007 when my personal essay about my daughter’s fast and furious birth was published in Pregnancy magazine.   I was thrilled that my essay got accepted–and I was hooked! Even though I was swamped with parenting two little kids, I kept on writing a little bit every day (or [Read More]

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5 Reasons The Junior Varsity Team Was Right For My Teen

October 11, 2020 By Katy

Could he? Would he? These were the questions I asked before my teen’s freshman year of high school. I wasn’t wondering about his course load, social life, marching band, or student council. No, I was wondering whether or not he could make the varsity team in his chosen sport. It would be such an accomplishment, [Read More]

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My Whiny Baby Review of Noom, The First Month

September 20, 2020 By Katy

Last month I started Noom and shared my honest thoughts early on. In a nutshell, it’s a diet and you will lose weight if you stick to the 1300 calories/day they suggest. (Now, what happens when you start eventually start eating >1300 calories/day like a normal person who isn’t dieting is kinda obvious to me: [Read More]

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Old School Pop Culture References That My Kids Don’t Get

September 6, 2020 By Katy

Ready for a laugh? Then check out this list of pop culture phrases and sayings from the 70s and 80s that your kids have never heard of! This article was originally published on Filter Free Parents. “Don’t touch that dial!” joked the weatherman on the morning news. I chuckled and looked at my teenage daughter [Read More]

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My Whiny Baby Review of Noom, the First Week

August 23, 2020 By Katy

So, I’m trying Noom, the weight loss app thing, and here’s my honest review after the first week. Warning: I’m going to whine about it! First, let me explain a bit about why I’m trying Noom. The last time I dieted was in the 7th grade and I’m not kidding. I’ve always been able to [Read More]

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One Simple Thing Encouraged My Teen to Join our Family During the Pandemic

August 10, 2020 By Katy

Got teens? Got teens in a pandemic? I do and it inspired the post below, which I wrote during the height of the stay-at-home order in April. This originally appeared on Grown and Flown. I never thought a pandemic would magnify typical teenage behavior in my sixteen-year-old son. However, my son still wants nothing to [Read More]

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Middle School Chronicles: A Summer in Quarantine

July 19, 2020 By Katy

I’m pleased to welcome my daughter Sydney to the blog today. Sydney is an 8th grader who wrote the post below about her summer in quarantine. When she’s not writing, Sydney enjoys playing ice hockey, strumming on her ukulele, and baking. Welcome Sydney! “Middle school is easy,” said no one ever. The constant social issues, [Read More]

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Gen X Greetings to Use While Social Distancing

July 5, 2020 By Katy

Some days during the pandemic I felt like Ally Sheedy’s character, Allison Reynolds, in The Breakfast Club. I buried my head, refused to talk, and felt scared and skittish. Yet there were days during quarantine when I felt like a totally different John Hughes’ character, Ferris Bueller. I looked for small sources of joy in [Read More]

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