“I need you to put your shoes on, Punky. It’s time to go,” I said the other day as I scooped up my purse and phone and strapped on my sandals. My ten year old, a little churlish at being rushed out the door, pulled her sneakers from the shoe basket by the front door […]

What’s THIS, you ask? This, my friends, is my reminder of That Awkward Moment when my daughter proudly brought home the “mountain” she’d created out of clay at school and asked me to display it. Happy Friday!

FRUIT FLIES are unavoidable– Every single summer, I end up with at least one infestation in my kitchen. It starts out innocently enough — I’ll notice a fruit fly or two buzzing around a bunch of bananas on the kitchen counter. They’re annoying, but harmless. In a few days, though, the fruit flies have multiplied. […]

Summer is right around the corner, and we parents have reached that point in the school year known as WHY ARE WE EVEN BOTHERING? Here are 12 ways moms all know it’s the end of the school year:   1. Your kid’s progress report shows five new tardies– and they’re all from last week.   […]

I was 21 years old and had just been hired out of college as a TV news reporter at a station in Columbia, South Carolina. I’d be shooting, writing, and editing my own stories– or at least, that’s what the news director told me when I accepted the job. When I arrived for my first […]

Dear Dads, Mother’s Day is coming up fast– (It is this Sunday, to be precise. Mark your calendars or your hands or something.) –and we know you want to help make this special day our best one yet. “But my wife is not my mother,” I can hear some of you grumbling right now. “What […]

I’m all about finding bargains. But one thing I’m willing to spend up on – if necessary – is makeup. After all, you can’t really put a price on a perfect matte black eyeliner, or an eyeshadow that exactly matches your eyes, or a lipstick in a to-die-for shade… If I can find an inexpensive […]

A whole lot of people have read my blog post on how wistful I feel at times about the fact that my seven-year-old son is my last child. But I have to be completely honest– While there’s a part of me that will always miss the baby and preschool years now that my children have […]

When my Anthropologie catalog arrives in the mail, it’s a true cause for celebration- I can thumb through its pages and blissfully lose myself in a mind-blowing alternate reality that Tim Burton himself would envy, a place where gigantic scissors, paper chickens, and four foot houses are completely normal. But don’t take my word for […]

One of the best things about working from home is that I don’t have to get dressed for the office anymore. In fact, I like to start working the moment my kids leave for school- which means that I sometimes don’t get out of my pajamas until I finish up at around noon or 1:00. […]