So it was Mothers Day, and since Jolie is a Mother sheās biased and isnāt allowed to write about it. Instead, itās me, Daughter #2, and while I donāt do Mothers Day the Hallmark way, I think we – the…
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So it was Mothers Day, and since Jolie is a Mother sheās biased and isnāt allowed to write about it. Instead, itās me, Daughter #2, and while I donāt do Mothers Day the Hallmark way, I think we – the…
When you have five kids and prep for an Easter egg hunt, you canāt just rely on the hard boiled dyed ones, you have to supplement with plastic and then try to decide what goes inside of them in a…
Silly me. I thought if I got everything done on The List in the appointed time frame and stood in the long lines without whining and wrapped the presents with gritted teeth while listening to Imagine Dragons really loud (hey,…
Having a BFF with a good memory is both blessing and curse. You never know what people remember about you, especially if you donāt remember it yourself. We were sitting among girlfriends over wine one evening, and she said, āRemember…
Aaaaah! I hope you are all as cozy as I am this very moment. What used to be an awful, frantic three months of endurance has evolved into just doing what I love. You have your fuzzy socks on, right?…
And here you thought I didnāt do holidays! Youāre right. But this isnāt a holiday. Itās an excuse to take my dad out to breakfast and eat french toast with wild abandon. The man had three daughters in a row,…
The wee leprechaun in me is jumping up and down demanding a game. Who wants to win a prize? Today, Iām holding a drawing honoring an Irish legacy, the humble potato. You can āboil āem, mash āem, stick āem in…
I am about to open a fat can of worms. Thereās no way around it. We donāt need this to get messy. But weāre going to get real for a few minutes. Are you one of those moms who drags…
If you have been up since midnight today, you have my deepest sympathy. Thereās not one thing I want bad enough to trade sleep for. Neither is there a bargain so great that Iām willing to risk a black eye…
Here we are in the throes of Thanksgiving. I love this month. I love having everybody over and sampling their cooking and playing āTake 2ā with scrabble tiles. I even love the dirty dishes, as you know. I love the…