I don’t even know what to write here that hasn’t already been said by every parent crying into their wine at 11pm while trying to figure out what to put on their timesheet for the hours they spent yelling at their kids to be quiet so they could work. If you read or watch or [...]
I really wanted this post to be funny. And, a couple of funny things have happened over the past week. But mostly just the kind of funny where it’s actually so stressful that you just laugh because the alternative is crying you have already cried four times that day. Like when you’re scrubbing dog vomit [...]
Before you ask - the answer is yes, it's permanent. I let my 6-year-old dye her hair pink. And it was totally worth it and here's why. I have this distinct memory from my childhood of wanting to get my ears pierced. I was maybe 8 or 9 and I had never wanted anything so [...]
This year marks my sixth year of motherhood. And what feels like an entire world away, three of my closest friends are celebrating their first weeks. Three perfect little boys. And by perfect I mean healthy, very needy little creatures that cry at all hours of the day and night. When I talked with each [...]
Parents make a lot of sacrifices for their kids. I knew this going into it and was at least moderately prepared to not sleep, give up alcohol for 9 months, and have yet another person continuously trying to suck on my nipples. But I was not prepared for camping. I mean, I did plenty of [...]
She’s six years old this morning. Technically tonight, 19 hours of labor later. The moment before I brought Mia into the world I remember the doctor looking into my panicked eyes and telling me, this is the ring of fire. It means she’s almost here. What it actually meant was that my body was literally [...]
It’s 6am and she’s peeking cautiously into my room, illuminated by a halo of early dawn light. She just needs a snuggle she says, and then she’ll go back to sleep. It’s a lie and we both know it but I lift up the covers anyway and she presses her warm body into mine, her [...]
I'm not a dollhouse mom. I don't know where to put the people or what they should be doing or how to make them talk to my 3-year-old. I don't enjoy laying on the floor, or making up stories, or counting acorns in the backyard. Even when I was younger I wasn't super into kids [...]
One of my least appealing qualities as a person is the number of mom groups I belong to on Facebook. Seriously it's embarrassing. I am what "people who are in a lot of mom groups on Facebook" refer to as a lurker. I pretty much never post, rarely respond, but often roll my eyes at [...]
A couple of days ago the media (along with pretty much every person who considers themselves middle class) got all riled about a group of rich parents, including a couple of notable celebrities, who got caught bribing and cheating and lying their kid's way into "elite" colleges. I'll admit, I did have my own little [...]
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