We all know our children are geniuses, but it is time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Who are real geniuses and who knows what chaff is? Here are twenty tried and true ways to know your children are truly gifted: They do anything you did as kid — only better. They don’t get […]
When the ball drops in Times Square and we say good-bye to 2013, let us also say farewell to some of the worst on- and off-line phrases of the year. “-said no one ever:” It’s like the 2013 equivalent of NOT from the 90s. I still feel bad for my parents who had to endure […]
Christmas shopping is hard for anyone, but kids are nearly impossible. Their interests change daily, and the stores are constantly trying to trick unsuspecting family members into buying things that kids don’t ever need or want. This week, I ventured into a store to find a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toy. This seemed simple enough. […]
Grateful: {synonyms} thankful, appreciative; indebted, obliged, obligated, in someone’s debt, beholden* I was looking up definitions and synonyms of grateful and thankful I wanted to know if there was a difference between the two since I can be grateful for what I have — my family, my home, food on the table, my pets, financial […]
Every year, I think about how I can destroy daylight saving time. My children are not built like clocks and neither am I. We have internal rhythms that are much more closely aligned with the natural light than with some artificial insanity where we all join hands and change our clocks forward and back and […]
This month is Domestic Violence Awareness Month and there are so many ways to bring more attention and support to this ongoing crisis in our communities and the world. Currently in the United States, as many 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men experience some form of abuse yet people rarely talk about […]
Although Emergency Preparedness Month is ending, The Walking Dead Season 4 is about to begin so it’s time to talk. I have been focused on the apocalypse for about a decade now, and I need to know if you're as prepared. When we moved this summer, the movers found not one but multiple jugs of […]
One of my bigger fears as I get older is not “dressing my age” because there’s no one creepier than the lady who looks twenty-two from the blinged-out, back pockets on a seven-times-a-week gym butt until BAM! grandma turns around to say hello. I’m not so worried about my wardrobe at the moment, but as […]
Me: “How was school today?” My kids: “Fine.” “Good.” “Okay.” Well, that tells me nothing, and although I don’t need to be involved in every second of my children’s lives, I would like to understand more about where they spend the majority of the their weekdays. My favorite ways to go from “fine” to details […]
There seems to be two camps of reactions to back-to-school from moms online: Boo! Hoo! Hoo! my baby is x-years-old and THEY GROW UP SO FAST. Followed by a baby photo or seventy. OR Yes! Yes! Yes! my kids are leaving me to be in school, and we finally have hours of freedom from each […]
