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I Used to Want to Be a Rockstar. This is All I Got.
Husband and I used to be in a band. Well, we still are. We just don’t ever play the songs we’re still writing, because we have six kids. But before those six kids, we played all over Texas and took a few tours through Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. We wrote our own...
9 Things You Don’t Consider When You Decide You Want a Baby
These would be things like higher utility bills, the gross and grosser, and torturous road trips. Having kids changes EVERYTHING.
What Every Parent of Twins Needs to Survive
I don’t know if I’ve ever faced a harder challenge in my parenting years than raising twins. Maybe it’s because our twins came near the end of the line of boys and they see all their older brothers do, and they expect that life will be exactly like that for them. Except there are two […]
7 Embarrassing Things You Can Blame On Your Kids
All of us have our shortcomings. That’s for sure. No one is perfect, after all. For all the shortcomings I notice about myself (and there are a lot, let me tell you), probably about 80 percent of them are true, because I’m a child of divorce and suffer from...
How to Parent: In 39 Confusing Steps
Parenting is simpler than ever in our day and age. So much advice exists that you can’t really go wrong, even if you tried. All you have to do is: 1. Make sure your kids can do their homework themselves, because they’ll need to be able to apply for a job someday. 2....
How I Know School Has Started Up in Here
How I most know that school has started: ten thousand papers all over my bed.
13 Ways A Parent Could Earn Extra Money (If Only)
I hope I didn't steer you too wrong with that title. We all want to make a little extra money, don't we? But there's that "if only" tacked onto it. Whatever could she mean by THAT? Well, every week, I look around my house and the disaster that it's become, and I...
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