Have you had a laugh today? I know I need one! It’s been a rough week, as I shared on Tuesday, because we had to say goodbye to our beloved pet of 18 years. Thankfully, Pinterest provides unending funniness. That’s right, I find more quirky jokes and pictures on there than anywhere else these days. [Read More]
Look Back in Humor
“How’s your blog? I haven’t seen anything lately. Are you still doing it?” my stylist asked me while I was getting a trim. “Uh,” I stammered unintelligibly. “Yes, I’m still doing it.” Then my heart curled up and died a little bit. Yes. I’m definitely still doing my blog. However, once I got over the [Read More]
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The Glamour of Being a Working Mom
Working moms around the world breathed a sigh of relief this past spring. That’s because researchers from the Harvard Business School published an article that found positive effects of growing up with a working mom for both boys and girls: “Women whose moms worked outside the home are more likely to have jobs themselves, are more [Read More]
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12 Things I’ve Learned in 12 Years as a Parent
July marks my “Mamaversary”, the anniversary of when I became a mom. My son turns 12 and I can’t help but look back in wonder at the last dozen years of parenting and reminisce about all that I’ve learned. Nor can I refuse the urge to share with you all that I’ve learned. Here are my words [Read More]
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Experienced Bad Mom, Dream Crusher
“Mom, I NEED to take gymnastics,” stated my daughter, 8. She was out in the backyard doing cartwheels. “You already took gymnastics,” I replied casually. “Mom, no, everyone I know is taking gymnastics. I want to do gymnastics so bad.” “You already took gymnastics,” I repeated. “Once, when you were in preschool. And then just [Read More]
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From Sweetheart to Sweet, Lord, What IS All This Stuff?
After three years raising our firstborn, an extremely active son, our family was blessed with a little girl. She slept like an angel. She was as sweet as an angel. She was so dear to us. Oh, sure, my sweet baby girl soon grew into a not-so-sweet toddler and preschooler, but really, I had no [Read More]
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How To Take Over the World
I’m pleased to be your #1 source for foreign policy updates. Earlier this week, you may have caught my blistering exposé on Canada. Now I’m ready to tackle world domination as I participate in a “Finish the Sentence” blogging prompt. The prompt? “The first thing you must do to take over the world…” The first [Read More]
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Memorable Mom Moments
Terrific. Great. Just a couple words that describe how I feel this week about getting back into our family’s routine of school and work. Don’t get me wrong, the holidays were wonderful and I felt like we enjoyed a much-needed break. That said, by New Year’s we were starting to climb the walls and fight [Read More]
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10 Great One-hit Wonders
Something amazing happened last week. People liked one of my blog posts. I mean, they really liked it! At last glance, my little post on 10 Things to Say to the Trick-or-Treaters Dressed as Elsa was liked by over four thousand people on Facebook. Four thousand! My previous best was probably less than a hundred. Okay, [Read More]
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Have a Funny Friday!
Here’s some follow-up to a couple things I’ve been talking about this week. First, I saw this cartoon and thought it was appropriate after Tuesday’s Everyday Mathematics post: Ha! And then there’s this YouTube clip from the movie Tommy Boy. On Monday on my Facebook page, I told everyone that I got whacked in the face with [Read More]
