Tweet Do you remember when an acceptable Thanksgiving craft was tracing your hand on a brown piece of paper and making hand-Turkeys and then taping them to the wall? Do you remember how awesome 1982 was? Astrid even came home from preschool last week with a cute little hand-turkey card and it was at that…
Tweet My Aunt loaned us her bird feeder a few years back. She was moving away and thought my girls would love watching the birds from our kitchen window. As lovely as the idea sounded, I knew there was a reason in my 40 years of living that I never yearned for a bird feeder…
Tweet There are so many lessons we teach our kids. The lessons of kindness, patience, giving, honesty, and love ring through the house daily. I can hear myself often reminding my kids to ask for little but to give a lot. And they aren’t kids to ask for much. They never ask for things at…
Tweet Isn’t everyone excited that we only have 12 more days of political ads? Seriously, I think political ads and prescription drug commercial should be banned because if my kids aren’t having to listen to a candidate berate and lie about another candidate then they have to listen about some guys erectile dysfunction and why…
Tweet I put on a pair of earrings yesterday. Just basic, dangly, silver earrings. Eloise took one look at me and said “Mother(yes ‘Mother’ – not ‘mom’, not ‘mama’, not ‘mommy’, not ‘queen’, not ‘the most beautiful woman in the world’…just ‘Mother!”), those are MY earrings! You need to ask my permission before you wear…
Tweet I made my family go out and pose and smile and act like they like each other to capture the perfect pictures for our annual Photo Christmas Cards last weekend. They love me for this process every single year. Well they basically only love me when we are done and get to drink the…
Tweet I love taking my kids to sporting events! For example we go to a baseball game and they ask why no one is running for a touchdown. We go to a football game and they ask when that guy down there is going to pitch the ball. They take after their mother. I…
Tweet You know the parents that I love the most? The ones who give their 2nd graders iPads. I mean I really love them. I love them so much that I think they should buy everyone in the class iPads. Wouldn’t that be even more awesome? Eloise asked us for an iPod Touch last…
Tweet So Esther has decided that she wants to run for President. She eagerly watched the debate with me last week while her older sister acted like someone was trying to pull her toenails off because we were making her watch ‘boring news stuff’ – so I assume she must have been missing the latest…
Tweet You know that old story about the man who goes to the doctor, moves his arms and says “It hurts when I do this” and the doctor responds with “Well stop doing that!” ..well that’s how I’ve been feeling lately about a lot of things. And then a very wise friend said to…
Tweet I love hearing how people met – whether through a mutual friend, at church, at a bar, on a run, the toilet paper aisle at Target…or even on an airplane. Jed and I have a pretty unique story. He was living in Connecticut and I was living in Minnesota – and we happened…
Tweet I took the girls out to eat on Saturday night. And by ‘the girls’ I don’t mean my breasts because no matter how insignificant they are, those ‘girls’ come with me everywhere I go and can’t stay home while I’m dining out even though sometimes it may look like I’ve left them behind. When…
Tweet If you follow me on Facebook you know that my 25th high school reunion is next weekend. I’ve been posting little clues – like my senior picture. I’ve received a lot of very jealous emails saying that I was a master with my Aqua Net and why was their hair never that big or…
Tweet Esther’s homework assignment was to make a contract with her teacher about what time she would commit to do her homework each day, for how long she will do her homework each day, and explain and draw a picture of where she will do her homework. It was a pretty easy assignment as…
Tweet I used to vlog a lot. But then my children figured out how to unlock the closet door and free themselves and it was very hard for me to find any quiet time to vlog. And then Summer happened. Oh Summer. So with the kids back in school and Astrid now in preschool…
Tweet I won’t lie. As much as Summer can drive me crazy, this Summer has been one of the best ones ever. I don’t know if it’s because my kids are getting older or because I chose to work a lot less or maybe because I did enough ab work that I felt comfortable in…
Tweet ****** 1. Don’t erect a podium and invite the media over every time you want to have a family financial discussion about ‘budget cuts’ and ‘overspending’ when you find bags of clothing from Anthropologie shoved under the bed. 2. Respect your partner’s lawn signs and keep your signs on the other half of…
