We are not in Chile or New Zealand. It is not winter here. Not even close. And our toilets flush clockwise! Okay, so do theirs…but still, my point stands. In twelve days time (the 12 Days of Christmas in July, you guys!!) I will drag the extension cord around front, […]
**An expanded version of this list is now running on The Huffington Post. Go there to check out names 18, 19, and 20!** Gone are the classics Tom, Dick, and Harry for boys, and so long to Desiree, Summer, and Brittttaniiii for girls. The first half of 2018 has been […]
I was with the girls in Whole Foods without much of a menu plan for the week. This is, generally speaking, an awful idea. But free samples awaited us around every turn and so the kids were wearing their Kool-Aid grins tasting fancy cheeses, fruits they already love, and chips […]
EPIC PLAYDATE. Those are three pretty rad words, right? EPIC. PLAY. DATE. There’s just no way that something or a collection of somethings, having had such a marquee-quality title bestowed upon it, could be sucky in the least. No. Way. I left a very cush corporate gig five years ago […]
I participated in a campaign on behalf of Dad Central Consulting for AVEENO. I received product samples and a promotional item as a thank you for participating. I haven’t shaved in years. I trim my weird beard once a week or so, more frequently during the hot months, but that […]
This post is brought to you by ConAgra Foods and The Motherhood, and I’ve been compensated for my time. However, all opinions are my own, as always. During this Hunger-Free Summer campaign over the past few weeks, I learned that my daughters’ school does not participate in a program that […]
Some three decades after my first go-around with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, it’s once again ‘cowabunga time’ as my girls (and our cat) recently discovered, and have fallen in love with, the hard shelled pranksters Leonardo and Michelangelo, Donny and Raph. My memory, while still holding down the fort at […]
I wanted to have Mouse’s school buds, the ones who came to her paint-yer-own-pottery party two weeks ago, over to the house for an end of school par-tay, a brief frolic in the meadow, er, backyard, to pick up their finished gnomes and glazed dragons, and to say fare-thee-well to […]
