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How to Throw a Rockin’ Birthday Party

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Those of you who have been around a while know that I do NOT consider myself a Pinterest-inspired Supermom. So I’m surprising even myself with today’s post recapping Sydney’s 6th birthday party. I consider this post a service to the other parents out there who may be faced with planning a party around a ROCK. [Read More]

Signs that it’s time for Winter Break to be over

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In my school district, the schools close down for 2 weeks around Christmas and New Year’s. While this is nice for the kids and hopefully allows the teachers to recharge their batteries, it’s just a little too long for me. Here are the telltale signs that Winter Break needs to be over: 1. My 9-year-old [Read More]

Experienced Bad Mom’s Year in Review

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2012 was a big year for me and my blog. Specifically, 2012 was the year I joined Twitter, created a Facebook page, shared guest posts on Scary Mommy and The Mommy Mess, and was a featured blogger on The Sits Girls. Exciting and nerve-wracking at the same time! I’m so thankful for the new friends/followers/bloggers/people [Read More]

Experienced Bad Mom’s Top 3 Christmas Moments

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I’m still recovering from having my parents and my big sister visit over Christmas. And I mean recovering in the nicest way possible! It was fun and crazy having 7 people in the house. There weren’t many bad mom moments, but there were some lovely, zany Christmas memories. Here are the Top 3: 1. My [Read More]

Fresh or Frozen? A 9-Year-Old Decides

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We were watching a Domino’s pizza ad for their new deep dish pizza. It begins with their CEO, who looks with disgust at a frozen circle of dough. “You wanna know a dirty secret?” he asks. “A lot of pan pizzas start out with frozen dough.” Then the commercial cuts to a Domino’s chef. Who’s [Read More]

A Cultural Christmas with The Nutcracker

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My parents took me to see The Nutcracker ballet more than once growing up. It was big. It was grand. It was also a little weird because there was no talking. Anyhoo, I’ve never exposed my own children to this tradition. Detroit doesn’t have a ballet company (that I know of) or one that Captain [Read More]

With Sympathy for Newtown

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About two weeks after 9/11/01, my husband and I went to see a silly movie. It was much needed comic relief after the non-stop sorrow on TV. Like then, eventually I will return to jokes as relief from the events of this past week. But for now I am still so sad. When I heard [Read More]

An Experienced Bad Liebster Award

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A big thank you to Kerry at Breadwinningmama.com for giving me a Liebster Award! What is the Liebster Award, you ask?  The Liebster Award is a fun way to encourage and show the love to bloggers who have less than 200 followers. As Kerry wrote, it’s basically a “Hey, that’s a sweet little blog you’ve [Read More]

More Rage Against the Kindergarten Machine

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Remember this? You can refresh your memory about this in my first Rage Against the Kindergarten Machine post. Basically, after 6 worksheets, Sydney didn’t want to color her kindergarten homework anymore and I didn’t think she needed to. But obviously her kindergarten teacher thought she should! Well, prepare yourselves. Now there’s this: Troubling? Brave? Poor [Read More]

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