Happy June, y’all! I’m glad May is over, because it’s always the absolute craziest month when it comes to the end-of-school-year chaos. For some reason, May is when everything school-related is crammed into the span of a few weeks. It’s a constant overload of projects, class parties, permission slips to sign, etc. When your kids […]
Family “Fun” Day… At Ikea?
We recently had a shift here. For years now, The Captain has worked Saturdays. The kids have long been used to him not being home, so doing things “as a family” were typically squeezed into a few hours on Sunday- if at all. He’s no longer working on Saturdays, so we’re trying to figure out […]
The Dino-Mite Gift Of Laughter
#3’s 13th birthday has come & gone, which now brings our house’s teenage total to THREE. We have some limited experience with teenagers because 3’s older sisters are now 16 and 15, but since 3 is also our oldest boy, this is a fairly new road for us. This year has already brought about changes […]
FabFitFun- Treat Yo’Self To This Cool Box Of Fun!
You know how the term “self-care” has been bouncing around for the last few years? It’s actually a really important concept for moms, and it’s also one that I happen to suck at. You probably do, too. It sometimes feels impossible to take care of yourself when you’re bombarded by constant needs, and we often […]
19 To Life- Six Kids & Still Together
We just celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary recently, and it’s genuinely crazy to think we’ve been married that long. I remember watching Thirtysomething* as a kid, and marveling at how long being married as long as the characters were (12 years? 15 years?). They were so… grown-up, with houses, and kids, and jobs, and MARRIAGE. Lots […]
Holiday Shopping- 5 Stages Of Grief
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…” Let me tell you- whoever said that clearly never tried to decorate a house for Christmas with six overeager kids and a throbbing post-Thanksgiving hangover. So the holiday season is in full swing, and I’m not feeling it. I love the spiritual meaning of Christmas, but I’m […]
A Shady Story About School Projects
There are typically two types of students: those that LOVE doing school projects, and those that dread them. And with parents, it’s similar. Some parents fall into the first category, and savor the quality bonding time of assisting their child with a school project. Me? I’m firmly planted in that second group. I HATE SCHOOL […]
Let’s Talk Turkey
Thanksgiving is almost here, so there’s lots of turkey talk. I’ll admit that never in my life have I had to cook an actual turkey,and that’s a fact that served me well in my discussion via text with my poor, unsuspecting mom this morning. I saw a few posts online about pranking your mother with […]
S’now Better Time Than The Present
Today was the first snowfall here on Long Island, and it was sort of unexpected. Well, we knew we’d be getting something, but that something ended up being a few more inches than the dusting most people were anticipating. What I love about the news these days is the drama over weather. I’m not talking […]
Urine Trouble
This is one of those stories where you think you’ve set your standard of bizarre child behavior low enough, only to be blindsided by an unexpected “Who DOES that??” sort of experience. In this case, it involves urine, because kids. And I choose to share it because there will a small minority of you that […]
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