Not Your Average Weekend — the best weekend around for moms! March 18-20, 2016 Have you reserved your room yet? Call (1-800-222-2909) to make your reservation before it’s too late! Did you ever see a mom somewhere, a mom you don’t know at all, like at the grocery store, and her kids are being total tools, and […]
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Deez Nuts
Not Your Average Weekend — the best weekend around for moms! March 18-20, 2016 Have you reserved your room yet? Call (1-800-222-2909) to make your reservation before it’s too late! There is an annoying phenomenon going on with middle school aged kids where “vine” sayings become part of their everyday vocabulary. Number 3 is especially susceptible to these, […]
Progress, no matter how slow, is progress.
Not Your Average Weekend — the best weekend around for moms! March 18-20, 2016 Have you reserved your room yet? Call (1-800-222-2909) to make your reservation before it’s too late! Today is the beginning of week 6 of the weight loss competition I entered at the Y. It’s also the beginning of week 8 of my marathon training program. […]
How We Handle Laundry
When you have a big family, inevitably one of the first comments people always make is about laundry. How many loads of laundry do you do every week??? We definitely have a lot of laundry. It used to be impossible for me to keep up with it, and my dining room table almost always looked like […]
What Your Kids Need
Today I read a complaint from a parent on Facebook who was “boggled” as to why her child had to sit three to a seat (with backpacks and snow gear!) on the bus. Ugh. You know what I am boggled by? I am boggled by the amount of complaints made by parents these days. Not just […]
Common Core isn’t the problem.
Back in 1997, when I was twenty-nine years old and an elementary school teacher in Pennsylvania, I made the decision to move back to Connecticut. Knowing that I was moving at the end of that school year, I applied for teaching jobs in a handful of school districts in Fairfield County, one of the most affluent […]