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Pottery Barn Dorm Essentials: College Senior Picks 18 Favorites (2021)

With move-in just around the corner, it is time to start looking for dorm room decor! Pottery Barn has some of the best dorm room items and keeps up with all of the newest trends for college students. Did you know is that Pottery Barn even has an entire dorm line, full of items that…

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14 Dos and Don’ts the Summer Before Freshman Year of College

Entering college is such an exciting time in your life! In just a few months, you will finally be leaving your hometown and moving to a new place to live on your own. There is so much anticipation leading up to move in. Here are dos and don’ts for the summer before your freshman year…

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13 Fun Gifts From Scary Mommy for Friends, Sisters, and Yourself!

When a friend has a birthday, or could use a small thinking-of-you gift, we are often stuck with what to buy. Our friends at Scary Mommy are here to help with imaginative and funny gifts for fellow moms and dads. Here are just a few of our favorites. Go Away I’m Reading candle When you…

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Why “Friends: The Reunion” Makes All the Middle Aged Moms Cry

I didn’t make it five minutes into HBOMax’s Friends: The Reunion without tears welling up in my eyes, accompanied by a grin so wide you’d think I’d just time traveled back to the fall of 1994, and was plopped down on the oversized sofa in the TV room of my sorority house.  If the phrase…

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How Grown and Flown and the Today Show Celebrated One Special Grad

Back in February, in the thick of the pandemic, Jeri Williamson, a mom of three turned to a Facebook group she had been a member of for several years, Grown and Flown Parents. Jeri is a single mom whose son Trenten, who is currently 18, was diagnosed with Duchenne’s Muscular Dystrophy at the age of…

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My Son’s High School Graduation Is a Huge Deal; He Almost Didn’t Make it

About a year ago when I opened my son’s report card after it arrived in the mail, I felt like I could breathe normally again. He passed junior year by the skin of his teeth. Even he was surprised when I read the sentence his advisor wrote underneath his GPA, “You have passed your Junior…

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My Daughter Pushed Me Away, When She Needed Me Most

Now that it’s the season to wear shorts my daughter has been looking so cute wearing her little biker shorts with oversized T-shirts. It reminds me of how I used to dress as a teenager in the early ‘90s. She’s started driving now and always runs to get in the driver’s seat first whenever we…

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When You Can’t Help Your Troubled Teen: Like Chasing Smoke in the Wind

Just after my fifteen-year-old son Gabe left our home for five months to enter residential treatment for depression and substance abuse, a movie was released―Beautiful Boy―based on the book by David Sheff about his son’s struggles with addiction and his own journey as a father. People who knew our family’s situation―trying to be supportive―suggested we…

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After the Carpool Days End, Who Are Your Friends?

I couldn’t have made it through the infant and toddler years without the other new moms. We had weekly playdates and rare but much-needed Moms’ Nights where we put on actual clothes, drank wine and rolled our eyes as we fielded texts from our hubbies about where to find the extra stash of wipes. Those…

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High School Graduation: 15 Things Moms Need to Know NOW

High School Graduation. Since the day your son or daughter donned their adorable size 5 cap and gown and marched down the cafeteria aisle to receive their kindergarten diploma and you wept at how old they suddenly were, you’ve anticipated the day with fear and trepidation. And somewhere along the way in the past 13…

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