We swim on a swim team that’s about 45 minutes from our house. Number 3 has practice six days a week, Monday through Saturday. Number 4 has practice five days a week on Monday and Wednesday through Saturday. Number 5 and 7 have practice three nights a week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and I’m […]
teenagers
20 Things Good Moms Do
I get a couple emails or messages every week from women and moms in particular thanking me for “keeping it real” and for making them “feel normal.” It’s one of the reasons I started this blog. Because when I was in the thick of parenting and we had five kids under the age of eight […]
May they be blessed.
For those of you who are waiting to make it through the stage where your kid doesn’t sleep through the night, or the playing-in-the-toilet phase, or the potty training phase, or the saying-no-to-everything-you-ask-her-to-do phase, I have a little newsflash for you. It doesn’t get easier. In fact, it gets harder. Yes, it’s exhausting to get […]
TTYL. Or never.
Once upon a time there was a boy named Number 1 who got a cell phone for Christmas. A really nice, kick-ass, jaw-dropping, Oh-my-God-I-can’t-believe-you-guys-got-this-for-me cell phone. (His parents had a free upgrade, so it actually only cost $35). But he didn’t know that. His parents had a talk with him about the value of […]
The first rule of fight club is, you do not talk about fight club.
Number 2, who is 13, has been coming to the Y with me when Number 3 and 4 have swim practice. He usually plays basketball with his friends during that time. Last week he even took a class with me. Which was rather amusing. Anyway, observing Number 2 in this environment has made me aware […]