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School Shopping with Kids is Just as Hellish as it Sounds
Every year in Texas there’s this wonderful weekend where shoppers get to take advantage of tax-free shopping on school supplies and clothes. Hundreds of thousands of people head out in droves, hitting all the local stores and cleaning out school supplies and every...
10 Ways My Boys Make Me Fashionably “Green”
Many times, when I mention anywhere in the online world that I'm a mom of six boys, all the environmentalists come out to play, not realizing that I'm actually a closet environmentalist myself. Over the years, I have convinced Husband to trade antibiotics for...
11 He Saids That Will Make You Chuckle
Left kid: I’m going to write a story. It’s going to be about [talks for the next 10 minutes.] Right kid: I wish I could color your mouth shut. Right twin: I was gonna feed my sunflower seeds to the ducks, but Mama said no. I have to eat them. Left twin: Oooooh! You...
That Frightening Time When Your Kid is Learning Autonomy
It’s a celebratory day when kids are able to buckle their own seat belts and pour their own glasses of milk and bathe themselves and cook their own food (wait, when does this happen again? I’M READY ANYTIME, KIDS). When they’re little, we spend so much of our days...
6 Annoying Things Kids Will Never Understand
The other day I was trying to put my 3-year-old in the car, and we were in a hurry, because I wanted to get to the grocery store and back before it was time for their lunch, since you definitely DO NOT want to be caught out in public when two headstrong 3-year-olds...
11 Confessions From the Diary of a Stressed-Out Mom
Kids are fun, aren't they? I could think of a whole lot of other words to describe them, too. So dang cute, wonderful, charming, hilarious, imaginative, delusional, maddening, nasty, beastly, so dang annoying. In the course of a day, there are a whole lot of things...
How to Know You’re on the Right Track as a Parent
There’s this school of thought that really bothers me. It shakes fingers at us and says that if we think parenting is hard or we feel like giving up on a daily or hourly or minute-by-minute basis or we, God forbid, wish our kids would be different, less difficult people for a fleeting moment in […]
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