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Do I Ever Feel Like Giving Up? Every Other Minute.
A few weeks ago I got a text from my sister, who had her third baby in February. The text said, “Tell me you have days when you just can’t handle it. When walking out of the house is all you can do to survive. I just need to hear it from another human.” I […]
What Happens When a Kid Environmentalist is on Trash Duty
We have this fancy chalkboard hanging in our kitchen with “This Night” written in wannabe hand lettering, because I’m nothing more than a wannabe artist. Beneath those words, we have each of the boys’ names and their subsequent chores listed. Those chores change every...
How to Put On Shoes and Other Helpful Advice From Kids
We can learn a lot from kids. But sometimes their teaching is hit or miss. Like in the example below, which are all lessons I've learned from my kids. How to put on your shoes: 1. Try for 10 seconds. 2. Cry. 3. Throw the shoe. 4. Ask your mom. Lesson learned from: a...
What the Rare Independence Day Means for Parents
I’ve never really cared much about Independence Day—not because I’m not incredibly grateful to all the people who fought for my freedom—but because here, in Texas, Independence Day falls right smack dab in the middle of a time when the air outside boils up to a...
What It’s Like Watching a Movie With Kids Who Have Seen It
Every now and then Husband and I will treat our boys with a Family Movie Night. Usually this happens on a Friday, because boys don’t have to get up for school the next morning, and we can all take our time getting to bed once the movie’s done. Sometimes Husband and I...
Cinder-Mama is a Real Person. She is Me.
You know that scene in Cinderella where she’s in the kitchen trying to get things ready for the day, and on the wall there’s this collection of bells ringing incessantly, signaling that people who are depending on her (mostly because they’re lazy) need things? Every...
Hey, Kids: A Mom Always Knows. Just Don’t Do It.
The other afternoon I was sitting in our library reading a book, because it has a direct line to my 3-year-old twins’ room, and they’re not traditionally great nappers. I guess they didn’t know I was watching, because one of them was hanging from his top bunk like a...
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