I totally know how this post is going to come off. I mean look at the title- 5 Ways You Can Help Your Friends Who Live Away From Family. I am going to come across like a whiney little cow. Perfect. Here we go…. Recently our…
You all know how much I love you and appreciate you. In fact I love you all so much that I want to shower you all with tons of dollar bills, ya’ll! Lots of dollar bills. Lots and lots and lots of dollar bills. In…
Okay. I thought Dance Mom’s were weird. Until my daughter started playing soccer. HOLY CRAP. Soccer parents are weird, too. I told my friend about how competitive some parents were acting, and then of course she had a hockey parent story for me. It was beyond…
Every decade or so I become obsessed with something so badly it consumes me in my dreams. It happened when I was 21 with Real World Seattle. I was living near San Francisco, working as a nanny for a family that hated me. I was lonely….
Recently our 5 year old son told my husband something. It started like this… My husband took him to the park and right before my son took off down the zipline, he started his sentence- “Dad, I said something.” He then shared that during his…
I hope you like this overnight apple oats with yogurt recipe. We moved from Ontario to British Columbia straight out of college. Zed and I were dating and we assumed that our jobs at a radio station would be a little starting point before we…
This morning over breakfast… 5 year old Bot: Babies come out of their butt’s. 8 year old Whirlwind: No they don’t. They come out of Mom’s vaginas. Bot: Not Mom’s baby! A DOG’S BABY! Me: Dog’s have vaginas. Bot: They do? Me: Yup. That’s how they…
I just read a really great article about Beat Bugs from Rolling Stone magazine. After reading it, I was ‘all in’ and pretty much had to force the kids to watch it the first time. I think most parents will dig it, but I think…
I refused to watch Scandal when it first aired. Want to know why? I hated the name. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Maybe it was unfair of me to judge a book by it’s cover, or in this case, a show by its name. But, really, it’s a dumb name, Shonda…
My kids don’t get how to give back to their community. They just do not get it. I think we have made volunteering such a big part or our lives that our kids don’t even know that they are doing it. Does that make sense?…