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We’re getting ready for a family trip to Disney World, and as you can imagine, I’m in the middle of a packing-induced anxiety attack. I had to take a break, though, to wish you all a Happy New Year....
View ArticleResolution
I have one New Years Resolution this year. Just one. It helps that I painted my bedroom this past weekend, a “to do” that’s been on my radar for over two years. It also helps that reading and...
View ArticleHula (not Hulu)
At our New Year’s Eve block party – amidst a moonlit game of hide and seek, an unlimited supply of colorful glow sticks, gorgeous fireworks, marshmallows, and an “it’s dark, way past our bedtime, and...
View ArticleThe Best Day Ever
Today, my friends, is Monday, January 7, 2013. It’s the seventh day of the New Year and it’s my New Year’s Day. My fresh start. My first day of the rest of my life. Why, you ask? Because Dylan and...
View ArticleI’ll Start My Diet Tomorrow
I woke up on New Year’s Day totally and completely ready for a diet. A financial diet. (Please, Mamas, let’s be kind to ourselves. Let’s just pat ourselves on the back for enduring the emotional and...
View ArticleJumping The Shark
Hey Mamas, I’ve got a new piece up on the Today Parenting Team Community page about my parenting resolution for 2016. Not surprisingly, it includes a story about poop, because I’m a mom and, well,...
View ArticleWhat I Learned About Life From Binge-Watching “Fixer Upper”
Let’s just say I a lot of fun (wine) on New Year’s Eve, which rendered me useless on New Year’s Day. I fed the kids once or twice (I think?) and walked the dog, but after that, I hurled myself on the...
View ArticleThe Stay-at-Home Mom’s Must-Do List For 2017
Stay-at-home motherhood is relentless. It’s always moving. It’s never still. But it’s also static, unchanging, and monotonous. It’s “Groundhog Day” with occasional location changes. I’m grateful for...
View ArticleI plan to slow cook my life this year.
There are a lot of ways to usher in the New Year besides making traditional resolutions (and rage cleaning the linen closet). Some people choose words. Others choose mantras. This year, I’ve chosen all...
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