All posts in: Motherhood
The day a joke went too far
I heard someone on Oprah say that as parents, we write on the slate of our childrenâs lives. If ...
The Inconvenient Hamster Truth – Part II
If you read my blog posts with any loyalty at all, youâll know what this is about. If not, Iâll ...
Stock
Yesterday was Cowboy Day at my boys’ school, in honor of the National Western Stock Show, which has ...
The Good, the Bad, and the Undies of Motherhood
Britney Spears isnât the only one not winning any motherhood awards in 2008. Although the holidays are ...
The dilemma of the white lie
Generally speaking, I’m all about honesty. Why has Mommy locked herself in the bathroom? It’s ...
Parenting Experiment No. 65
The Subjects: My children, ages 8, 8, 6 and myself.
Hypothesis: Changing my attitude first will produce the ...
Coming Full Circle
My mom is going to grin ear to ear when she reads this. When I was a child, my mother had a particular way of ...
I blame retailers for enabling my pre-Halloween celebrations
There’s nothing wrong with the way I grew up. I rode backwards in the station wagon, we only had two TV ...
Ten Reasons To Stay Ten Forever
My daughter has recently graduated from the local summer soccer league to this new, year-round, ...
Spoons
“I can barely handle my two kids, I don’t know how you do it!”
This is the phrase I most ...
