Father’s Day always gets me thinking about the important men in my life. I have been blessed with an amazing dad and should probably be writing about him (sorry Dad!), but today I’ve decided to highlight the father of my children: My amazing husband. Here, in no particular order (except maybe the first one since […]
Advice for my sons that flies in the face of convention
Dear Sons, As you grow older, you will hear something from women over and over again. It is a phrase that has been repeated thousands, nay millions, of times to men everywhere. Sometimes the women in your life will say it with laughter in their voices. Sometimes they will cry it in frustration. They may […]
Week 20: Driving in cars with boys
First time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge? Click here to learn what it’s all about. For Eli’s birthday last month, we bought him Sea Dogs tickets (for those of you who don’t live around here, the Sea Dogs are the Red Sox Double-A team). The game was this past Sunday. We left […]
Making new mom friends is like trying to pick up a guy
She catches your eye across the playground. She has a cute haircut and is wearing those sandals you’ve been eying. The kid she’s pushing in the swing appears to be about the same age and gender as the one you chase around on a daily basis. This woman is worth further inspection. You casually move […]
Week 19: The taming of the shrew
If you’re just joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to learn what it’s all about. Friday afternoon: I pick Eli up from school and head with the kids to Sam’s Club. I’d love to wait until tomorrow to go, but since we have only one partial roll of toilet paper […]
You’re doing potty training all wrong. Here’s why:
When it comes to potty training, the prevailing attitude seems to be ‘the earlier, the better’. I get it. Sort of. Diapers are expensive, so it would be nice to cross them permanently off the shopping list. And there are always those parents who want to turn their smug noses up at the poor schmuck […]
Week 18: The sweetest thing
If this is your first time joining me for the Keeping It Real Challenge, please click here to learn how it all began. I read a blog post a while back by a mom whose kids are a little bit older than mine. She was at the pool with them one summer day when she […]
Balloons for Nicholas
On Tuesday morning I asked the question: What can I do? I’ve been following the journey of the Sauer family as their son, Ben, battled a brain tumor. His time on Earth ended last week and it left me wondering how I could honor him and his family. I knew I couldn’t necessarily do anything […]
Week 17: Heaven is for real
If this is your first time reading one of my Keeping It Real Challenge posts, please click here to find out what they’re all about. I first learned of the Sauer family in March, about a month after they discovered that their four year old son, Ben, had a cancerous brain tumor. He’d had surgery, […]
Live tweets from a three year old
The other day I started thinking about how it’s become popular to tweet about the television shows you watch. Some shows even display people’s tweets across the bottom of the screen. So that made me wonder: What would it look like if kids could tweet about the shows they watch? I decided to try it […]