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  • Parenting helped me embrace my inner “no”

    A make-up free selfie of Jennifer Garner made the rounds, last month, showing the exhausted mom of three after her fifth-annual “yes day.” When hearing about the actress’s yearly trend of indulging every whim, no matter how much it beat her down in the process, I wondered if I could…

  • The beautiful bond of my boys

    The following is an excerpt from my story, “Brotherly Love,” in the book, The Unofficial Guide to Surviving Life With Boys: Hilarious & Heartwarming Stories About Raising Boys From The Boymom Squad, edited by Tiffany O’Connor and Lyndee Brown of #Lifewithboys.

  • Promote early literacy skills with this ABC lift-the-flap train

    This post contains affiliate links. I get a small percentage from purchases made through the links on this post. I am a blogger, and, as you might have guessed, I loved reading and writing in elementary school. I devoured books and composed stories of my own, many of which my…

  • A tale of Ivanka Trump and kosher weddings

    A few weeks ago, I wrote about the special connection I felt with Hillary Clinton, and ended the post with a comment on how I have a Trump story. Well, more specifically, an Ivanka Trump story. I was going to post something else today, but, since it happens to be…

  • A lesson in patience from a praying mantis

    Whoever said, “Patience is a virtue,” probably never had kids. I say probably, because I am too impatient to look it up. See where I am going with this? Patience. Yeah, that’s not one of my core elements. Before I had kids, I’d be that person, who would run down…

  • Thank you, Hillary Rodham Clinton, for my children

    I have this weird habit — well, maybe you do too — of imagining what my life would have been like if I had gone to a different college, or visited a different country or taken a different job. I am a believer in “the butterfly effect,” despite the awfulness…

  • Easy cereal box train

    I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for me to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. This post contains affiliate links. My four-year-old loves making projects, and, while I do have some artistic talent,…

  • School’s birthday policy is something to celebrate

    I was elated earlier this month, when I received an official packet from my son’s school. The manila envelope was packed with information about his teacher, his bus route, special programs run by the Parent Teacher Association and important dates to remember. One piece of paper stood out among the…

  • Top tips from our Cooperstown trip

    Cooperstown, N.Y., is a dream destination for baseball fans. Because, my baseball-loving husband had never been, and I barely remember my childhood visit, we decided to take a weekend trip to the historic village. With two small kids in tow, we were unsure how much of Cooperstown’s famous sites, we’d…

  • If Game of Thrones took place in high school

    War, disease, deathly mythical creatures. It’s hard to imagine anything scarier than the world of “Game of Thrones.” Oh, wait, there’s high school. Surviving the teen years is hellish enough; now imagine what that might be like if Westeros, instead of being A Middle-Ages-inspired fantasy world, was your typical high…