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Every year I feel the pressure swell sometime around November. I used to be able to stave it off until after Thanksgiving, but each year it comes just a little earlier. I want the perfect [...]

I had to laugh when I stopped by my local Target at 8am on Halloween morning to pick up more candy, and a zealous worker was already removing the candy and replacing it with boxes of Christmas [...]

Among the biggest heartbreaks for me as a parent are the times when I can’t fix a hurt for my children. Like when their friends are leaving them out. I hate it when they’re left out. Naturally I [...]

As my youngest gets settled into 8th-grade this year, I am more convinced than ever that junior high is the seventh level of Hell. I think it was created in the fires of Hades by Lucifer [...]

Every year I declare it won’t sneak up on me and every year I fail. All of a sudden I get an email from the school reminding me about Meet The Teachers night and I look at the calendar and I [...]

Note: in honor of Mother's Day, we're celebrating the many different women in our lives who have left a legacy. We're calling them our "many mothers," and thanking them for their love. Read more [...]

We all do it.We live in the declarations of what our kids will not “never do,” before they actually arrive in our home. No television or sugar or fast food. Then one day you give in and buy a [...]

I didn’t own a car until I was 24 years old. When I finally got one, I thought I was pretty cool because it was a used ’87 Pulsar sports car with T-tops.  (I think I paid $3,000 for it.)  Then I [...]

Last night my kids came home to tell me about a friend whose parents had just bought them a brand new car. Then we all laughed really hard. Our family reality is that this kind of gift will not [...]

It all started about three months ago. The baby of the family started growing up. Backstory: my daughter’s body got ahead of her last year when she went from 5’ 2” at the start of the school year [...]