Stephanie Jankowski's Blog, page 22
January 7, 2016
I’m Good Enough, I’m Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me!
Women wastetoo much time scrutinizing the crow’s feet at the corners of our eyes. We’re also quitegood at making ourselves feel guilty when we don’t measure up to the one-size-fits-allexpectations that other people haveset for us. Other people who, by the way, we’ve never even met. Can we just make a rule right now: ifwe […]
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January 5, 2016
So You Want a Gun
Some say that death and taxes are the only absolutes in life, but my pelvic floor wants to weigh in on this. I never have to pee as badly as when I’m balancing milk on one hip, a toddler on the other, and repeatedly trying to open the front door with my carkey. The new […]
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January 4, 2016
Listen To Your Mother: 2016 Pittsburgh Auditions
Some people look at the New Year as a blank slate, ready to write their own story. I am one of those people. I love the symbolic vat of opportunity that a new beginning brings, and this year, that vathas a name: Listen To Your Mother Pittsburgh. And speaking of symbolic, no one thing or […]
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December 22, 2015
H&R Block Budget Challenge = $$ for your classroom
During my senior year of high school, I took a course called Independent Living. The class taught us things likehow to balance acheckbook, a task I still struggle with (shut up), and how to manage money so we understood the steps in the Financial Order of Importance: Step 1: Earnpaycheck Step 2: Pay bills Step […]
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December 21, 2015
The Perfect Holiday Gift For Baseball & Softball Coaches
You know how when you marry a person, you also marry that person’s quirks and passions and annoying habits? Like I’m completely incapable of having a conversation before 7am, yet my husband put a ring on it. Bless his heart. And I willingly said “I do” to a baseball nut. In the dramatic throes of […]
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The Perfect Holiday #Giveaway For Baseball & Softball Coaches
You know how when you marry a person, you also marry that person’s quirks and passions and annoying habits? Like I’m completely incapable of having a conversation before 7am, yet my husband put a ring on it. Bless his heart. And I willingly said “I do” to a baseball nut. In the dramatic throes of […]
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December 8, 2015
Winter: My Nemesis
One of my favorite winter activities is enjoyingthe untouched beauty of the first fallen snow…from withinawarm house while wearing fuzzy slippers and sippinghot cocoa. Winteris not my friend. If sheweren’t so cold or last so dang long, maybe I’d reconsider, but seeing as how she sticks around for what feels like half the year, winter […]
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December 7, 2015
A Cookie
If you’ve been reading me for the last year or so, you know my almost 20-month-old daughter has had her fair share of issues. Ashort stint at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh where she staved off dehydration led to a plethora of testing and worry, including concerns thatthose holes in her heart hadn’t closed, and an […]
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December 3, 2015
Things I’ve Learned Thanks to My First Colonoscopy
Stomach troubles have plagued me for as long as I can recall. When I think of all the thingsthey’ve ruined for me, one particular example comes to mind… My boyfriend had takenme to a romanticseafood restaurantthen to see the Pittsburgh Symphony. But before the first note reverberated off of the crushed velvet walls, I was […]
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November 23, 2015
Countdown to Christmas: 25 Fun Ways to Ring in the Season
Christmas seems to fly by faster and faster, and this year, I’m putting my foot down. I called the Farmer’s Almanac and insisted they add days to the month of December, and they were all, “Lady, that’s not what we do.” Whatever. Since I can’t extend the season, I will make the most of every […]
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