Relaxing stresses me out. Seriously! I don’t know how to do it – relax, that is – and when I try…well, I confuse my family around me. Case in point: A couple of weeks ago, my 5-year-old approached me with a big, award-winning, I-did-something-worthy-of-a-sugary-treat kind of smile. He proudly told me that since he knows […] Read more…
If you’ve never seen the movie “Stranger than Fiction”, then you might not appreciate this picture… In this scene, Will Ferrell’s character is giving Maggie Gyllenhaal, a woman he’s auditing (and falling in love with), a bouquet of flours. She owns a bakery, so it makes sense, and it’s adorable. And it made me […] Read more…
We will never know much about each other. We probably won’t even learn each other’s names…if we still even have a name other than ______’s Mommy. But in those 5 or 10 minutes that we are thrown together at the Chick-Fil-A playground, or in the pediatrician’s waiting room, or watching through the mesh as our children jump around […] Read more…
I pushed the “upload” button before I could talk myself out of it… …and now – ready or not – here it is! Katie and I, along with a few hilarious and awesome friends, put together a little something for you…a mommy parody video of “Let It Go.” Why did we put ourselves out there in […] Read more…
So, you’re pregnant. Congratulations! If you’re anything like me, then you have this wonderful sense of excitement about your new bundle of joy, followed by nervousness and fear of how much it will cost to have a baby. “Wait, don’t you have insurance?” Is the question I usually get. Yes. Yes, I do have […] Read more…