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My life often feels like a comedy, and my kids say some hilarious stuff. I was acutely aware of that due to a childhood full of babysitting, but it’s even funnier now that my own kids are trying to put my adult words into context in conversation…which clearly takes a detour most of the time. […]
“You know what I mean jellybean,” I say to Bri a few weeks ago. Immediately, she smirkly replies, “I know we’re very OUT jellybeans, Mom.” I spend so much time trying to extract the positive from every situation that I sometimes neglect to see that I’m completely out. Mom’s aren’t unlike their kids, in a […]
“Mom,” says my oldest, Brianne….”IT’S going to be LO LO’S VERY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!!” (Not sure why she adds the word ‘very’ to every phrase…but it’s too cute to correct.) Well I’m out of babies…and hoping to stay that way through this next baby bug (people I know getting pregnant everywhere!!) All of you….keep that contagious […]
We all endure tests throughout life. They shape our character and reflect all the repeated quotations that have stuck to and motivated us throughout our lives.
There I was, sitting in a Caribbean paradise, wishing I had paid a little closer attention to Handy Manny, Dora, and Diego. Yep, I said it…and really wished it. What’s worse in the eyes of a foreign country…that you butcher their language trying to say something…or opt to be lazy and just speak English because […]
There I was, sitting in a Caribbean paradise, wishing I had paid a little closer attention to Handy Manny, Dora, and Diego. Yep, I said it…and really wished it. What’s worse in the eyes of a foreign country…that you butcher their language trying to say something…or opt to be lazy and just speak English because […]
Great picture, right? “Like a magazine cover photo,” said the photographer this afternoon. If you only knew the mental strife behind that photo. What we had to do to get her to cooperate….Oh….my…3. I thought I had escaped the wrath of the terrible two’s. My daughter is a very good kid, and extremely well spoken […]
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