It was a warm, sunny Sunday morning in June that I anxiously sat in the bathroom staring at a little stick to see if I was pregnant. After confirming a positive result with a couple more pregnancy tests (just in case), I started placing the date of my last menstrual period into online pregnancy trackers: a […]
Dear Cold and Flu Season, Is it just me, or did you show up way earlier than usual this year? Most years I feel like we can get a good chunk into January before I worry that you’ll really take a stronghold, but this year, roseola struck my house in October. By December, my Facebook news […]
17,100,000. If you type “potty training” in the Google search bar, you get over 17 MILLION results. Want to know why? Because it’s the most confusing and frustrating part of parenting a toddler. Not only that, but NO ONE knows what they are doing. Sure, there are people who train their kids in a […]
It may be a small state, but Rhode Island kids have some big problems. We go off to college and suddenly learn that other states have more than one area code (and they have to use area codes to dial IN STATE?!?), we hear the jingle of a truck and our friends look at us […]
I assure you that this post is not about the movie starring Will Ferrell or the fictional race-car driver Ricky Bobby. But the title fits because this is about being a parent to more than one child. And how the youngest often feels compared to the first-born child’s “overly documented” babyhood. As the baby in […]
Spoiler: it’s us. Let me explain. My Boychild missed his first day of the fifth grade. We were so looking forward to the new year, and Boychild couldn’t wait to see his friends. As we got closer to the school, he started complaining of a stomachache. He was fine when we left the house–maybe a […]
Remember a year or so ago when everyone was posting on social media about the three fictional characters who they related to the most? Thanks to Facebook’s memory feature, mine popped up on my news feed the other day. I started wondering if I could piece together my parenting personality from fictional mothers, and I […]
Can you smell it in the air? The holidays are coming! It’s time for baking, carols, shopping, and family gatherings. Also, a time for cleaning out those toys your kids insist they still need, but in reality forgot even existed. Given our home’s modest size, I have no choice but to make an earnest effort […]
As we enter into the official holiday season, food becomes a top priority. Let’s be honest, above the presents and parties the thing we all look forward to the most is the food. Who will make the turkey? Who will bring which sides and order the pies? What kind of dessert will take first place […]
Attention, Ladies Who Work WAY Too Hard on Thanksgiving: Please practice the following in the mirror daily until it rolls off your tongue and is delivered with plausible believe-ability: “I just *have* to get to Kohl’s RIGHT when they open at 6:00 tonight! So, husband-of-mine, oh-love-of-my-life, I can’t POSSIBLY clean up all the Thanksgiving leftovers. […]
