The Live-Tweeted Family Road Trip

I took a short family vacation last week, as you may or may not recall. My husband and I loaded up the minivan with our six year old, 20 month old, 3 suitcases, 4 pillows, 5 stuffed animals, 3 blankets, a Pack-n-Play, a portable toilet seat, a white noise machine, a...

The 4th of July- What Are You Wearing?

The 4th of July has always kind of been a big deal to me, ever since I was a small child. My mom and I both have the tendency to become attached to traditions, and holidays in general become major productions for us both. Being a nostalgia junkie, as I have repeatedly...

Bedtime Stall Tactics, As Taught By My Toddler

Aren’t kids great at prolonging bedtime? For not having complete control over their bodily functions, they certainly are masterminds of manipulation and cunning. I was shocked at how early my second daughter began honing her abilities to delay being put in her...

Paging Dr. Freud! Help a Neurotic Mama Out!

It’s Finish the Sentence Friday again, and it’s one of those sentences that, for me, inspires writer’s block. If I could have dinner with anyone in history, it would be… Cue crickets and tumbleweed. So, the prospect of coming up with a...

My Favorite Posts From My First Year of Blogging

*Warning! This is not a real post. Feel free to skip it, unless you are at home on bedrest or laid up in the hospital in traction and need 100 links of stuff to read. Then by all means, dive in. (Disclaimer- I do not actually hope that either of those things has...
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