Dear Boys, Yesterday I wrote a post that contained some advice for your sisters. I didn’t want you to feel left out. So with regard to girls and dating, here is my advice for you. 1. Do the old fashioned stuff. I know it’s 2013. But I don’t care. And yes, I do some things […]
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5 Signs Your Boyfriend is a Douche (a primer for girls)
A friend of mine, a young, intelligent, responsible, talented, funny, hard working, athletic, and very beautiful friend of mine, recently got her heart broken. And not just a little bit broken. Ripped out, thrown on the ground, and trampled on broken. I feel so bad for her. Because I’ve been there. And I dread the day any of my girls go through this. They are only 6, 4, […]
I’ll pass on the taco holder, thanks.
When I was a kid, your teacher gave you pencils on the first day of school. And paper. And crayons. And all the other shit you would need to get you through the day. You know what my kids got on the first day of school? A list of all the crap that I need to buy them for school. […]
Is it nature or nurture? Hmmm. I think it’s a little of both.
So to celebrate the last day of summer, I did a mud run yesterday. And I didn’t do it alone. Number 1 did it too. So did Number 2. And Number 3. And Number 4. My dad, even did it with us. We ran. Go Papa! We climbed. Go Papa! We crawled. Go Papa! We got dirty, […]
I told her it was HER “special day.” But I think it really was mine.
People often say to me, I don’t know how you do it with 7 kids. And to be honest, sometimes I don’t either. When I found out I was pregnant with Number 6, I was a little panicked. Actually, a lot panicked. Especially when he started out as twins. It wasn’t exactly planned. The day after I had […]
Dr. Seuss said it best. As usual.
I may have said this before, but I used to see this therapist. She was a life changer for me. And one of the biggest things she taught me was that, as she put it, I needed to develop a “teflon coating.” I used to take everything so personally. To the point that it was […]
