...finding perfection in imperfection daily.
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 […]
So your kid is lounge lizard just like mine, eh? Check out how to get your indoorsy kid to play outside this summer!
If you read the title and you’re scratching your head, allow me to explain. Last week I had the pleasure of babysitting a 6-month-old baby girl who I will affectionately refer to as “Baby Girl.” (Clever, no?) Baby Girl and I made fast friends as her 6-year-old big brother and BooBoo were classmates last year. […]
You do a buttload of laundry every week. I know you do because I do too. My kids think nothing of tossing clean, albeit wrinkled laundry, into the dirty clothes hamper when they’re just too lazy to put their laundered, fluffed, and folded clothes away. And while both kids produce a criminal amount of laundry, my tween […]
Boy Wonder and I disagree on a lot of things. This time we did it on video for Babble. Ch-ch-check us out on Boy Wonder’s video debut!
It’s me, Boy Wonder again. Thanks for reading my last blog on why tweens need cell phones. It made me feel good to have you read it because some people thought I was right. I’m on summer vacation but it doesn’t feel like I am. My mom has been making my brother and me do […]
It’s not easy parenting kids with a substantial age gap between them. It seems like it should be, but it just isn’t.
The Untitled GenX Podcast
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