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This Is for All the Parents Who Aren’t Ready for Easter, Either
It’s Good Friday which, yes, is the day Jesus died on the cross, but that’s not important right now**, because Good Friday is ALSO is the day well-intentioned mamas like me die a little inside when we realize we have done nothing — nothing — to prepare for Sunday’s Easter celebration. No eggs. No candy. No dresses. No suits.…
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There’s Such a Thing as Being TOO Efficient
There’s such a thing as being TOO efficient which I just discovered, um, experientially. Look; I know that’s a hard sell, because TOO efficient? How can efficiency be bad? Like, EVER? And, trust me, I know the demands on our time and the number of things we have to get done — the dishes, the laundry, the…
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Why We Have So Many Kids
It finally happened. My kids asked why we have so many of them. “Why did you and Dad have so many kids, Mom?” they asked, because five kids is a lot of kids, and it only took them, like, eight years to notice. Now let me just say, I’ve promised my kids for years they can ask…
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A Dog Named Bullsh*t
Once upon a time, my daughter was two. Now that she’s 16, she looks like this: But when she was 2, she looked like this: And when she looked like that, with chubby cheeks and overalls, wispy hair and a funny run, she couldn’t talk. I mean, she tried to talk, and she had all…