Happy 2017, everyone. As “that time for resolutions” has rolled around again, I sincerely hate discussing all my promises to myself that “this is gonna be the year.” I am a liar. I can lie to my children without batting an eye: “Mommy sends Santa a monthly report, and this is going in it.” “We’re leaving.” […]
Carrie On the Holidays: In Every Single Thing
Years ago at church, our pastor showed a video during his sermon that a simple 8-note scale contained the best news in the world. That image has stuck with me, a piano-dropout myself from years ago. The narrator ignores his mother’s gentle attempt to bring him into the world of piano, and like every piano dropout […]
Carrie On the Holidays: Make Like Elsa and ‘Let It Go’
My family has a million Christmas traditions, dating as far back as I can remember. There are holiday traditions that I treasure and will always perpetuate, and there are traditions that, because of necessity, geography, having small children, and…time, have subsided a bit. It’s not that these traditions aren’t important to me, or that I’ll […]
Carrie On the Holidays: Pardoning a Few Turkeys, Y’all
Happy Thanksgiving, y’all! It’s that time again…to give thanks for all that we have, watch a lot of football, enjoy our families (of course, until 6pm on Thursday when all the pre-Black Friday mania begins…ugh), and eat some turkey. A couple of very lucky turkeys in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday will receive an official Presidential […]
Carrie On the Holidays: Bring On the Cheesy Christmas Movies, Hallmark.
Ellen: You set standards that no family activity can live up to. Clark: When have I ever done that? Ellen: Parties, weddings, anniversaries, funerals, holidays, vacations, graduations… –National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989) So the Christmas spirit has caught me a little early this year. We’ve been to a Christmas event at church, had hot chocolate, pulled […]
What I Learned from Helping a Mom in the Trenches
The other day, I helped a mom who was a stranger, a mom in the trenches. We were at a play place, and she was wrangling two little boys. Her older boy was about two years old, and she had a baby in her arms. While holding the baby, she tried to help her toddler […]
I Miss My Kindergartener
Over the past two years, I have made a nice little social media/online niche for myself documenting my awkward navigation of stay-at-home motherhood. For all the internet to see, I’ve laughed, cried, and written as a form of therapy while my boys destroyed our house, broke toys, swung from curtains still hanging on their rods […]
The Unholy Roller: An Expose of My Disgusting Mom-Mobile
Last night, I offered to drive two friends to our book club meeting. When I picked up my friend Sarah, I mentioned, “There’s sort of a weird smell in my car. I haven’t been able to find it yet.” This was an understatement… “Oh, I’m sure it’s not that bad,” she reassured me. However, upon […]
5 Reasons I’m Celebrating My Kids’ Independence
Today, in addition to celebrating the many beautiful freedoms I enjoy as a US citizen, I also want to celebrate the independence my three children (ages nine, five, and three) are gaining. They’re growing up fast, y’all. When America was born, our fledgling nation declared its independence from England. We started our own thing, made our […]
You’ve Still Got It, Mama
Someday I’d like to introduce my kids to ME, the ME I was before they were born. That girl was fun. She read and wrote all the time and had dinner with friends in cute bistros. She and her boyfriend (now husband and father to the three kids) got lost on back roads in her […]
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