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Not Just a Bad Mom, But an Experienced Bad Mom

My Universal Truths of Motherhood

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Recently my 5-year-old was looking for a toy. She couldn’t find it anywhere. She described it down to the very last detail. I vaguely remembered it and then realized it was a toy she hadn’t played with in forever. It reminded me that there are certain universal truths of motherhood. These include: 1. The toy [Read More]

Kids Hear the Darndest Things

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Have you seen Oswald? He’s a blue octopus with his own show on Nick Jr. Sydney was watching an episode recently about Oswald and his friend taking a wagon full of trash to the dump. “Let’s take this to the dump,” Oswald said cheerfully at one point. My 9-year-old son looked up from his DSi [Read More]

Is that an iPhone 5?

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Today’s story is courtesy of my husband. I love it when I’m not alone in my badness! This one’s for you, honey. My husband and son went on a Boy Scout camping trip last weekend. On the trip, they visited the lumberman’s monument. The monument is a “huge bronze memorial to Michigan’s lumbering era [that] [Read More]

Unsmart

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I’m working on getting my 5-year-old to dress herself. I think I’m still hovering over her because she’s my youngest. My son Will, who’s now 9, was dressing himself from age 3 1/2 on simply because I had his baby sister to attend to. But it’s time to cut the apron strings! So the other [Read More]

I Think I Know What That Is

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On Friday, I shared this picture on my Facebook page: I can’t take credit for it (thankfully!), but I could totally see my 9-year-old doing the same thing on a spelling test. In the same vein, I’m sharing a story from Friday night. It was a beautiful fall evening in Michigan. My family was attending [Read More]

Stuff My Kid’s Soccer Coach Says

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Last spring my daughter played a preschool version of soccer where little kids kicked a ball around for an hour. This Fall, Sydney is playing in a recreational soccer league. She’s in a coed division of kindergarteners where they actually play games. (Well, they play games as much as 5-year-olds can be expected to play [Read More]

Free Tiny Prints Thank You Cards

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What’s something that can make even me feel like a good mom? Free thank you cards! In my dreams, I imagine me and my kids taking an adorable thank you card from the stock of thank you cards I have on hand and lovingly scribing words of thanks to anyone who gave a birthday or [Read More]

I’m bento out of shape about Dean McDermott

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Dear Dean McDermott, Aren’t you the guy who married Tori Spelling? You really haven’t been on my radar, but then I stumbled on your blog. In particular, I found myself reading your post Think Outside the Brown Bag, which is all about making food cute and packing it in cute bento boxes. Dean, I’m going [Read More]

Brown Braggin’

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I appreciate the brave souls who, after reading my lunch post the other day, reached out to me and assured me that I am not the only one who does not send their kids to school with cranberry sauce and brie on cinnamon bread for lunch. (That sandwich concoction was suggested in September’s Parenting magazine.) [Read More]

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