I have a daughter who has enter the I CAN DO IT MYSELF phase, which most people come to dread, but I learned with my first kid how to turn it to my advantage. And by “advantage” I mean “more sitting around doing nothing for me.” When my son went through this fantastic phase, I [...]
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A popular article from The Atlantic, “How To Land Your Kids In Therapy,” is making the rounds in social media, the press and friends. The byline is: Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports. The author also talks to some experts who agree [...]
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Until I began blogging, I thought that I was weird but had no idea why or how. Why did I feel awkward around other moms? How did I survive this long without being arrested? These questions plagued me, and blogging has truly helped me to hone in on the problem. I’m paranoid. Militia paranoid. Like [...]
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I only look fashionable now because I got out all of my bad ideas early. (Or my fashion strength lies in my ability to be delusional. Yay!) Up next? The college years. Also known as the Black Stretchy Pants and Vomit series.
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I’ve seen a facebook-blog-meme-forum-email floating around called “101 Things To Do With Your Kids This Summer” so I’ve decided to add my 10 cents. Or 10 ideas. Because I’ll need that 10 cents to pull some of them off. 10 Things To Do With Your Kids This Summer and PROBABLY Not Get Arrested 1. Build [...]
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We are having our house painted. Starting Tuesday at 8 a.m.. It’s an effort to save the siding and shutters. Or my husband’s secret plan to drive my insane. The last time we worked on our house was a year after we moved in. Scott found a leak. I cursed our house inspector. And we [...]
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Anyone with ears or eyes has seen people discussing government spending. The economist, teachers, politicians and the mystical middle class all weighing in on the pros and cons and statistics and surveys about how much we are or aren’t spending and why it’s good or bad. America is struggling to bring down our deficit. Most [...]
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I leave myself voice memos. I’d like to think that they are from the writer in me who sees the world as a landscape of inspiration. And then I listened to one tonight. It was a BEATING HEART. I was all WTH is that? Until I remembered that guy I put under the floorboards. Actually, [...]
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