Here in Connecticut, most kids (well, moms really) get gifts for their kids’ teachers at Christmas. It is also quite common for the class mom to collect money from parents to buy a larger gift from the whole class for the teacher. To be honest, it’s gotten to be out of control. This year, in lieu […]
Lessons I've Learned
Mommy, do you think Santa is real?
This morning one of the kids asked the question that at least one of them inevitably asks every year: Mommy, do you think Santa is real? I’ve struggled with this in the past. How should I answer? My response is always the same: Well, what do you think? Do you think he’s real? Every year […]
What’s a fucking apple? and 41 other not so shining parenting moments.
We’ve all had one. That really regrettable parenting moment. If we are going to be honest, we’ve all had many of them. And we will all have many more. But for some reason, we feel like we must be the only one on the planet to have had a parenting fail. I recently received a […]
What Should You Do When Someone Is A Dick To Your Kid?
A member of one of my e-courses posted this comment in our Facebook group, looking for advice from the other members. I asked her if I could answer her question here on the blog as I think she is certainly not the only parent to find herself in this situation. Here is her dilemma, published with […]
I’m not the sad fat person on the left.
So one of my goals is to help women, and moms in particular, to reclaim their inner badass. I think it’s so easy to lose this once you have kids. Initially, it’s kind of required. You need to make it all about the baby in the first few months. But sometimes the months turn to […]
Ain’t nobody got time to look for that. Again.
I am having issues with organization. I have been down this road before. About a year and a half ago, I went on a cleaning/purging/organizational binge, and for three weeks I went through my house room by room. But I had to stop exercising to do it. My house looked great. But my body didn’t. […]