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    10 Ways To Not Lose Yourself in Parenthood

    My husband and I were celebrating my birthday in Hawaii back in 2007 when he looked at me in a champagne-haze and uttered the phrase, “I’m so happy with you, but if you woke up tomorrow and said you wanted to have a baby with me, I’d be so happy.” What a waste of a […] More

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    10 Strange Skills You Develop as a Parent

    School started for my kids last week and it was the best week of my life. Okay, not the best week of my life, but pretty darn close. It was, however, the best week of my 1-year-old twin’s lives. They are blissfully free of the over-abundance of sometimes painful and questionable “love” given to them […] More

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    The Hardest Truths We Have To Teach Our Children

    My little girl, my second little love, began VPK this year. She’s four-and-a-half, and she’s spunky. She’s exceptionally stubborn, she likes things done very precisely and she is not a fan of change. No, that’s not truthful of me. She hates change. If she catches me with her bedroom furniture moved so that I can […] More

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    10 Things My Kids Have Totally Wrong

    I’m just going to come right out and say it; kids are kind of dumb. It never ceases to amaze me how little tiny humans can be so intelligent and insightful and yet still so stupid. I mean, really; it’s kind of embarrassing. For example, my best friend/cousin-in-law and I walk each night around the […] More

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    10 Things I Can’t Believe I Do Everyday As a Parent

    Parents are known for being a bit on a crazy side. It’s all right; it’s something we have to learn to embrace as we learn more about parenting and become more comfortable in this particular role of ours. If you asked me a little over 7 years ago whether or not I’d pick a booger […] More

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    It’s OK to Be Terrified if Your Child Might be Transgender

    Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, is one of the most talked about people of the year. Here you have a man who, late in his life, has decided he would come out to the world as a transgender personality. He has spent his entire life fathering children, married to women and assuming the […] More

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    10 Things Your Babysitter Will Never Tell You

    Hugs, kisses and waves; and then you’re out and the kids are the babysitter’s problem. Or maybe your kid cries a lot when you leave thanks to that evil separation anxiety thing, and you have to sneak out while he or she is eating the cookies you gave him so that you can forgo the […] More

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    The 10 Commandments of Shopping at Buy Buy Baby

    Baby stores are dangerous locations. Not only are they filled with all the baby stuff, they also have a lot of babies out and about doing their shopping. It’s a place in which you will find baby fever. It is the place you will find that you cannot control yourself. It is the place in […] More

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    How to Figure Out When You Child is Ready for Sleep Away Camp

    Kids mature, develop and change at different times. No two kids are the same. Trust me; I’d love for my 4-year-old to be a bit more like her older sister in the potty training department. When one child is ready to do something, another her own age might not. That’s what makes the topic of […] More

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    10 Things My Child Says that Makes it All Worth It

    For every 5 horrible crimes my children commit, there is 1 or 2 very sweet and amazing little things that they do that make me forget that they’re obviously tiny terrorists out to kill me. Kids are the most infuriating, most horrible people in the world. And they’re the most adorable, sweetest and most heart-stoppingly […] More

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