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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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Gotta love end of the elementary school year craft projects! It’s all fun and good until someone (me) has a momentary lapse of reason (of course me) and forgets that Gorilla glue doesn’t…
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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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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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First WTF occurred at 4:57 a.m. I got up and couldn’t fall back to sleep for the following reasons: 1. I began the involuntary process of trying to solve all of my problems/the…
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Five years ago today, I lost the person I was closest to for the first 40 years of my life. My beloved mom died after a relentless fight with ovarian cancer–a cruel, horrific,…
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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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Dearest Mike, I have officially spent the past 365 days as Mrs. Darter. Maybe my moniker hasn’t fully changed professionally–I am weaning off Meltzer gradually–or at the kids’ school, where my name will…
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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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The most content I have ever seen myself look. Makeup: Jones for Beauty Hair: Hair by Kat Venue: Freeport Yacht Club When I wrote a blog post on HuffPost Divorce, “Top 10 Rules…
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When you’ve endured as many motherless days as I have, you do everything you can to protect yourself from the heightened, stinging sadness associated with certain dates. Her birthday and death anniversary are…
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My son was enjoying a rare pack of Starbursts before I dropped him off at his dad’s yesterday. The car ride was more on the silent side—peeling, chewing, and prioritizing colors demands focus!–but…
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