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 [...]
Welp, I totally missed Lucy's birthday post this year. Which is kind of a mom fail but also a mom win because we were on vacation and I spent the whole day with her at the pool instead of writing something on my blog. So there's that. Anyway I was going to just skip the [...]
When we started this kitchen renovation (back in August - EYEROLL) I told everyone I was going to take a before picture of the kitchen and have it framed to hang outside the new kitchen so that I could remember how far it has come. I fully intend on doing that - just as soon [...]
As you probably know (if you live or go online within whining distance of me) Dan and I are in the process of remodeling our kitchen. We have been in the process for 8 weeks now, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and the great norovirus adventure of 2018 (not to be confused with the great norovirus CRUISE [...]
This blog post is about 2 years overdue, but, just like I say about remembering to bathe my kids, better late than never. Back in 2016, a few months after Lucy was born I wrote a blog post. It was called The Global OB Fee Trap: How to Find and Fight It. It was a [...]
Welp, here we are again. Standing outside of the Picture People at Sears having a giant crying screaming tantrum. It's become an annual tradition and honestly I was little nervous this year that the kids were going to be old enough to behave and the whole ordeal would be simple, boring and totally un-blog-worthy. Hahahahahahaha. [...]
Oh boy you guys. It's that time of year again - the hap-happiest season of all! (If you didn't sing that line in your head, try again). It's the season of it being so fucking cold it literally hurts your face to walk outside. The one where it takes 127 hours to dress the kids [...]
I was out in the yard with Mia the other day and she had captured some kind of cricket-looking creature in her bug jar. "What is it?" she asked me. "A bug," I answered, holding the jar as far away from my body as possible. "I'm going to ask Yaya," she replied smartly. "She knows [...]
Oh Baby Richards 