Last weekend when we went to Hershey Park, we spent the second half of the day at the water park. It was really hot, and it was packed. And I heard someone say, “There are women here who have no business wearing a bikini.” Whoa. I wasn’t wearing a bikini. I wasn’t even wearing a […]
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Vacation Goals
We are officially settled into our vacation place. It’s a three bedroom condo about 1/2 mile from the beach in North Carolina, the same town I’ve been coming to every August since the summer before my senior year in high school. Every year, that is, except for the last five years when we couldn’t afford […]
10 Road Trip Hacks For Traveling With Kids
Last week I took a solo road trip with five of the kids to Hershey, Pennsylvania, and I’m getting ready to embark on another one to North Carolina. The trip to Hershey was only 235 miles. The trip to North Carolina is three times as long. Just under 700 miles . If we didn’t ever […]
I’m Ready For The Next Chapter
The other day at the town beach I watched a woman with three kids, one of them a two-year-old, attempting to unload all the kid crap from her car. She had her hands full. Literally. She had a stroller and more than one beach bag and an umbrella and sand toys and a whole assload of other kid […]
And that’s exactly how I want him to think of me.
The last three or four times I was on vacation, I was pregnant, so I didn’t really care what I weighed or how imperfect my body was while I was at the beach in a bathing suit. But now I’m not pregnant, and I’m heavier than I’d like to be. Twenty years ago, I would […]
16 Pictures (Just About) All Parents Will Take
16 Pictures (Just About) All Parents Will Take 1. the my-kid-made-a-big-f*cking-mess picture 2. the first-day-of-school picture 3. the I-smeared-my-food-on-my-face picture 4. the beach/vacation picture 5. the baby and the pet picture 6. the look-my-kid-is-sleeping-with-part-of-his-body-sticking-out-of-the-crib picture 7. the naked baby on the stomach picture 8. the how-the-eff-did-my-kid-get-there? picture 9. the first-birthday-cake picture 10. the let’s-dress-our-kids-up-in-matching-Christmas-stuff picture […]