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February 3, 2020
Riddle Oil Valentine’s Day Giveaway
I’m SO. EXCITED. about Valentine’s Day this year.
…Can you feel the sarcasm pouring out of your computer screen?
The holiday isn’t my favorite in a vacuum, but this year it’s leveling allllll my Scrooge tendencies up to Defcon 1. Romance, chez Jordan, is officially dead. But just because Valentine’s Day is putting me in a mood doesn’t mean I can’t use it as an excuse to give you guys one of my all-time favorite products: Riddle’s pheromone-based oil (plus their spray-on moisturizer and...
February 2, 2020
Today In “Who Knew?!”
Here is my kitchen. It’s where I spend perhaps 75% of my day. There’s the cooking and puttering and such, but those barstools are also my writing spot, the kids’ homework spot, and (more often than not, alas) where we eat dinner, with the kids sitting on the stools and me leaning over the countertop on the other side (whatever, formal sit-down dinners are overrated).
There’s something that my kitchen’s missing, though.
(Ignore the rug; it’s a work in progress.)
Here’s another angle. …See it...
January 30, 2020
Nailed It
This morning I went on KTLA to talk about fun new toys to play during and after the Super Bowl, keep kids active, yadda yadda yadda, and hilarity (obviously) ensued.
The segment (above) went great, but you know where I really got to shine? During the teasers. Teasers, in case you’re unfamiliar with the verbiage, are when anchors tell you why viewers should stay tuned – “Don’t go anywhere, because you want to see Jordan Reid yadda yadda yaddaing!”
Anyway, it turns out that...
January 28, 2020
Some Posts I Wrote…And Never Published. Until Now.
Thought about writing about bellbottoms today but I was boring even myself
Whenever I’m not sure what to write about on a given day, I click over to the “Drafts” folder on my dashboard. I have a tendency to jot down titles and a quick note or two there whenever a potential post title pops into my head (it’s a good habit; if you’re a writer of any kind I recommend it highly). Which means that, at present, I have 678 drafted posts dating all the way back to 2010 that, for one reason or...
January 27, 2020
How To Reimagine Your Engagement Ring After The Marriage Is Over
Today’s reader question comes from S, who is in the process of divorcing her husband. S, like so many divorcing women, is conflicted about what to do with her engagement ring: Part of her wants to hold on to it for her children, but…it’s complicated. I get it, and you probably do, too.
So S wanted to know if I had any ideas for what to do with her engagement ring. I’m going to give my 100% honest answer, with the understanding that this is a touchy subject, and also that symbols of marriage...
January 24, 2020
6 Tips For A Stress-Free Morning With Your Kids
Q. Mahaley, please help me yell less?
A. If I may be honest here, I don’t have all the answers. My daughter is three, and she still wakes up in a horrible mood some mornings. I guess we all wake up on the wrong side of the bed sometimes, right? But here are some strategies I’ve found to be helpful for...
January 23, 2020
Talk To Me About Rescue Dogs?
My tiny Ewok
It’s been two months since we lost our girl, and it’s getting close to the time when I feel ready to bring another dog into our family. I needed a minute to recuperate after Lucy died– emotionally, of course, but I also needed a second to breathe, because the last few months of her life were…a lot. Besides the logistical work – vet appointments, messes to be cleaned – I worried about her all the time. I’d wake up in the middle of the night to check her breathing, or terrify...
January 22, 2020
How We Turned a Doctor’s Office into Our Guest House
When we were looking for our new house, we knew that we needed a space for guests. My family lives in Texas, and we love having them out to visit. We also have friends who regularly come to Los Angeles, so we almost always have someone staying with us. When we first toured our new house, we noted the detached doctor’s office behind the house, which had three rooms – a waiting...
January 21, 2020
A Few Exciting Discoveries From Our Long Weekend
Case of the Tuesdays over here
The way our custody schedule works, I mostly have the kids on weekdays – so when I found out I had the kids all three days this weekend, I got super excited and did the obvious thing: I overscheduled us up the wazoo. (I do this on the nights that I’m solo, too: I think,MUST DO ALL THE FUN THINGS!and end up watching half of sixteen different shows and staying up too late and feeling wildly unsatisfied about the whole event.) We had sleepovers. Korean BBQ...
January 16, 2020
The Ordinary: Should You Believe The Hype?
Here’s the thing about my approach to skincare: It’s very ad hoc. I do (most of) the things I’m *supposed* to do: Moisturize, sunscreen, et cetera…but since I have so many sample products from companies I’ve worked with laying around, I tend to just use whatever’s in front of me. This isn’t a terrible problem to have, but it’s made me lazy: I don’twantto figure out what’s right for me, because then, when I run out of those things, I’ll have to spend money restocking them.
Money, blech.
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