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Happy Saturday! Stay cool by reading another review of When You Lived in My Belly. You can preorder on Barnes & Noble and Amazon! “I’ve started collecting books for new mommies and mommies-to…
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Today is already shaping up to be this kind of day: Sunglasses for no reason except daylight (even sans sun) seems way too bright. Oh, and they work as a makeshift headband for…
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Soooo…let me tell you about my upcoming weekend. ✔️ My beautiful, brilliant bonus daughter is graduating from college tomorrow. When I met her, she still believed in Santa Claus, and I absolutely…
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My son–my sun–turned 9-years-old yesterday, and, for the first time ever, he didn’t run down the hall to greet me with a kiss at 6:00 a.m. (due a terrifying medical emergency I had…
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This is 100% MommyDishMondayMotivation. If parents’ priorities were straight (ahem, Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin), they would be happy supporting whatever their kids’ dreams and aspirations are (elite college or no college if they…
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My beloved 8-year-old son lost his father 8 months ago. At such a tender, impressionable age, he hand selected the dapper suit and tie he would wear to his dad’s funeral, he delivered…
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I must interrupt my snarky memes to post this, which will hopefully increase understanding and awareness of ADHD. I love this! And, if you have anything similar about another condition that you’d like…
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Special thanks to my friends over at Thyroid Survivor Network for sharing an article I wrote about my best friend Jill’s grueling thyroid cancer journey. Thyroid cancer is not the “good cancer.” When you read…
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Starting the day with an epic search for my cell phone! Usually, I can turn all sources of noise off–including authoritatively sssshhhhhhhhh-ing my kids–long enough to hear the faint, tantalizing whisper of my…
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It was a battle of wits last night in my home. The Tooth Fairy versus an insatiably curious and inquisitive 8-year-old who doubts her very existence. My son has only lost four teeth….
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I turned 45 recently, and I suddenly feel like a mom on the D-list. I am officially stalking 50 (hey, you always round up, right?), and half of my life is over, if…
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Bombogenesis. In all of my long suffering winters as a native Bostonian, I have never heard this term. Blizzard? Sure. Snowpocalypse? Yup. But bombogenesis? Yikes. Hearing the panic-stricken weather forecasters screech “bombogenesis” on…
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It’s the first day of school for my kids! T minus five days until I am routinely stumped by second grade math homework. Fourth grade assistance might require a stunt double, industrial-sized margaritas,…
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