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]
Old School Pop Culture References That My Kids Don’t Get
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
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
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
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
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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A Letter to My Teenager’s Car
Last summer, my teen turned 16 and got his driver’s license. It was definitely a rite of passage for him–and me! He also got a used car, not because his dad and I are bajillionaires, but because we found a car that fit our price range. Now our teen could drive himself to hockey practice, [Read More]
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10 Things I Learned in Quarantine
As things begin to open back up for us here in Michigan (a little slower than most other places), I am feeling a sense of joy and relief. I know we’re not out of the woods, but if I can just go out and about more freely to buy an ice cream cone or a [Read More]
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A 1980s American Girl Doll Needs To Exist, Like, Totally
Samantha. Julie. Kit. Melody. No, these aren’t the names of girls on my daughter’s team. These are the names of girls who live in my basement. Don’t worry, these girls are inanimate. I’m talking about the historical American Girl dolls my tween has collected over the years. According to the official spiel, each doll is [Read More]
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Coronavirus Words and Phrases I Don’t Want Added to the Dictionary in 2020
Have you ever noticed that they add new words to the dictionary every year? And they announce it, like we all care? Last year, for instance, they added “escape room” to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Well, 2020 is the year of the coronavirus and I’m pissed, basically, about how many words and phrases are now part [Read More]
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