A Trip Down Memory Lane
I found some pictures recently when I was going through some stuff in my office. My cousin sent them to me. They were from a trip we took to Puerto Rico about 25 years ago – the first of a couple...
View ArticleIt’s supposed to be the other way around.
Last week my friend Jess, the woman behind Diary of a Mom, shared that she’d been invited to a friend’s house in the tropics. She’s a mom and she’s married and she lives in the Boston area, and the...
View ArticleSlow and Steady Wins the Race
One of my current weekly goals is 10 minutes of strength training 5x/week. This week I won’t hit that – I’m 1/5 so far but will probably finish at 3/7 days this week. I have eight sets of dumbbells in...
View ArticleMy Friend Brooke
Many many years ago, I was running an online fitness course, and a woman named Brooke joined the program. She was a single mom living in Florida and had two very young twin boys. She was pretty gung ho...
View ArticleHeadphones
Even though there are less than seven years separating my youngest and my oldest, I still look at Kristofer and Ingrid as the older kids and Gretchen, Kasen and Marit as the little guys. None of them...
View ArticleSenior Year
The end of the school year is no joke for anyone. There are parties and concerts and ceremonies and all the regular end-of-the-year hoopla. Senior year is a whole different story. I was not...
View ArticleA Perfect 18th Birthday
If you’ve been around here since the beginning, you know how I feel about birthday parties for kids. I’m not a fan of over-the-top parties. I wrote some pretty opinionated posts about kid parties back...
View ArticleThank God It’s Not The Big C
Last Tuesday I woke up around 1 am with excruciating abdominal pain. Within ten minutes I was completely drenched with sweat from head to toe, writhing around in agony on my bathroom floor. I have...
View ArticleSetting Boundaries, Part 1
It wasn’t until a couple months ago I realized I had almost no boundaries with the kids. We aren’t talking Lord-of-the-Flies-lack-of-boundaries or anything – they have expectations and responsibilities...
View ArticleBoundaries, Part II: Are you setting yourself on fire?
One of my favorite quotes is, “You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.” I think most women, and mothers in particular, grew up with this setting-yourself-on-fire...
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