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It’s back-to-school season and you know what that means – back to setting the alarm, back to preparing school lunches, and back to everybody’s favorite pastime – homework. If your kids are like mine, homework gets done anywhere and everywhere between the kitchen table and the family room floor. And while it doesn’t much matter […]
Oh, autumn, you season of all seasons, you. We welcome you with open arms coming off of a long, hot summer. Famous as the season of harvest, you bring with you crisp air, pumpkin spice lattes, and of course, the deepest, richest colors. As the weather cools and the kids go back to school, fall […]
My Dearest Fellow Boy Mama, I don’t have to tell you how special the bond between mother and son can be. The addictive high that comes from being the greatest love of your boy’s life is good. So good. Too good. I have two sons–double the pleasure, double the gross, double the injury, and double […]
Nothing says “home” quite like an inviting fireplace. As a natural focal point and gathering place of warmth and family, a fireplace has the power to make or break the stylistic continuity your entire space. The original red brick fireplace that occupied our family room did just that – occupy space. While it housed many […]
Go ahead, add one more tick mark to the bad mom column – I refuse to take my kids back-to-school shopping. Of course, I would have died a slow, OMG-worthy death if my mother would have made the same decision with me. Back-to-school shopping was the only thing that made going back to school worth […]
Kids are weird. Don’t misunderstand, I mean that in the nicest possible way. Between you and me, I think kids are so wonderfully weird because they haven’t quite realized that people are watching them. The general public will forgive and even celebrate weird kid behavior because it’s awesome, and perhaps even more than being awesome, […]
The paint department is perhaps the only place in life where a genuine rainbow of possibility awaits. You’re drawn to the pretty colors and hypnotized by the prism of chromatic variation and paint knows it; that’s how it sucks you in. But all the pretty, pretty colors harbor a dark and callous secret: Paint can […]
You may or may not know that I have a disabled mother. I’ve written about my mom’s experience with polio and what it’s meant for both of us. The thing about my mother is that she’s a survivor like so many parents out there. My mom has experienced physical pain that I’ve never had to, […]
Big Daddy P a is joining me on Babble’s Home channel to document our total home transformation! Learn more about it and take a tour of our home by clicking here!
You guys, I don’t like telling you what to do, but this time I’m going to. Go get your video camera, phone, or whatever recording device you’ve got and sit down to interview your child. Do it NOW. You won’t be sorry. Check out my interview with Boy Wonder right here.
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