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July 7, 2014
A Very Professional Interview with Johanna Stein, Author of How Not To Calm A Child On a Plane
Vomit-covered hands. Dead body discovery. Foul-mouthed, pot-smoking parents (well, mostly Dad). A smuggled placenta. What’s this, you ask? The next episode of Pretty Little Liars? (Does that reference work here? ‘Cause I’ve truthfully never seen the show and had to Google “popular TV series” in the name of a relevantcomparison. How’d I do? I shouldaKeep reading...
July 1, 2014
The 10 People You Meet In the Hospital
If you’re new ’round these parts, you may not know that I recently expelled a tiny human from my loins. Baby Girl, mine and the husband’s third creation, joined our family in April, but not before an interesting hospital stay. I am somewhat of a self-proclaimed expert on hospital stays, having had a few babies […]
June 27, 2014
Kindermint Saves & Makes You Money
I often joke that my husband is Hitler with a spreadsheet when it comes to managing our family budget. (Can I call him that without being offensive? I never know.) I once found $20 in my coat pocket and he made us put it in the savings for “safe keeping.” Okay, that’s not true, but […]
June 26, 2014
Why I Put My Husband (and Sometimes Myself) Before My Kids
Before I had my own babies, I envisioned the kind of mother I would be: some Carol Brady mixed withClaire fromModern Familyand a pinch ofMarried with Children’s Peg Bundy just for fun.I could never pull off June Cleaver; it’s just not in my DNA to make dinner from scratch every night. AndI knew I wouldn’t […]
June 25, 2014
A Distraction Is Not An Accident
“I trust you, just not the other drivers on the road.” Even though I got my license about 106 years ago, after failing the permit test once don’t judge me, my dad’s words are still bouncing around in my brain. Since the day my fat head was printed on a little plastic card, my parents […]
June 23, 2014
I’m Cheating On My Computer With My Loose-Leaf Notebook
There’s this fun thing going on each Monday with some of the pals in my computer; we’re talking about our writing processes. It’s a blog tour about writing, people! SWOON! As an English teacher, I’ve taught the writing process several times: pre-write, draft, revise, etc. It was always very mechanical (English dork pun right there), […]
June 18, 2014
Disney Told My Kids to Kill Me
The kids were playing so nicely. No one was using the other as a balance beam, no one was arguing over the “not broken” pretzel. The baby was nursing contentedly, one of her chubby hands clinging to my shirt. I took a mental snapshot of the relaxing moment and then I heard it: “You can […]
June 15, 2014
Say CHEESE!
“I participated in an Influencer Activation on behalf ofMom Central Consultingfor Arla Dofino. I received product samples to facilitate my review as well as a promotional item to thank me for my participation.” The other day I overheard my son asking my husband why “Mom has a fat face.” After retrieving the knife from my […]
June 12, 2014
10 Things I Will (or Won’t) Do For My Husband This Father’s Day
I often rely on my writing to take attention away from the fact that I am the world’s worst gift giver. I’m the one who buys you a sweater in July, but the sweet words in your card totally make up for it. Unless you’re my husband. The crap I buy him is usually soooo […]
June 10, 2014
Here, Have a Free Vacation. Really.
Dimpled knees and chubby hands. Sweet smiles and coos. Snuggles and soft sighs. Babies. I’ll pause for a collective awwww… Done? It’s no secret I love me some babies. In fact, I would have more if my husband didn’t cut us off at three. Why did he put a no vacancy sign on my uterus? […]
