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As the world rejoices the birth of His Royal Highness Prince of Cambridge, I have more than the fate of the British monarchy on my mind. As a mother, I have my sights set on Kate. While it may seem that the collective world population is standing in Kate’s corner, I suspect all of the […]
Have a messy eater? Once upon I a time, I did too. Check out my 5 greatest tips on how to have a mess-free feeding session with kids!
You read the title; my husband wants a gun. Now I don’t know much about guns other than the fact that they kill people, but I’m really struggling with this now more than ever. Why? Because he’s decided to push the issue. We’ve been married nearly 15 years and from the moment we were handed […]
I love children’s fashion as much as the next mom, but you know what I love even more? Having kids who don’t give a rat’s ass about what they wear. Sure, I drool over the killer threads sported by fashionably famous Instagram tots. I pin expertly styled kid couture. Heck, I even buy my kids […]
You guys, I’m struggling with the tweenage years already. Boy Wonder is only 10 years old and I feel like we have less in common than ever. This kid has always been the yin to my yang, the macaroni to my cheese, the chow-chow to my beans and now, well, we’re just two people struggling […]
~A post contributed by my eldest son~ Being a big brother isn’t so great. Everybody says it’s so great, but I don’t think so. I’ve been a big brother now for 5¾ years so I kind of know a lot about being one. My mom told me that being a big brother is more than […]
This weekend I stood in a Walmart checkout line behind a mother of three using the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), a government assistance program designed to help low-income households pay for food. She had placed basics on the conveyor belt: milk, bread, cheese, children’s fever reducer, apples, raw chicken, Cheerios, rice, and a few […]
Falling in love is as exciting as it is terrifying. Never is one less in control of their heart and rational mind than once they’ve been struck by Cupid’s arrow. Love causes unfamiliar and addictive emotions to surface, calling us to act in ways we never thought we would and feel things best expressed by […]
I come from a family of talkers. Growing up, my parents were always talking. Whether they were imparting bits of parental wisdom or simply orchestrating a life lesson out of nothing at all, I was always listening, watching, and of course, learning. So as someone who’s had pretty decent life so far on account of […]
Two seconds after learning I was pregnant with my second child, we put our townhome up for sale. Aside from the fact that our family was growing and we needed more space, we were so totally over sharing walls with the hard-partying 20-something boys on our right who were hooking up with the 20-something girls […]
The Untitled GenX Podcast
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