Let me start by saying how wonderful Target is and how no mother could live without its giant red carts, crazy good deals, and endless home goods cuteness. However, I witnessed a conversation the other day that Target and Elf on the Shelf folks might want to know about. I dropped all of my kiddos […]
The Fear of Becoming My Mother
My mother has a song for everything. By trade, she’s an elementary school music teacher, but she has loved music her whole life. No matter the situation, she can break into the perfect song to match the occasion. When I was a teenager, her songs sent me diving under restaurant tables in total embarrassment. […]
Rewriting My Story
A few years ago, I thought I had life and career and marriage and motherhood all figured out. Feel free to laugh. I was the classic example of “Man plans, God laughs.” When my story changed drastically, it was hard to accept at first. My original life plan was gone, and in its place was […]
The Mom-Olympics: Settling “Mompetition” Once and for All
Okay, moms, you know it’s out there. Mompetition. It’s a noun. It’s that guilt, that urge you feel when someone is mothering their little progeny better/craftier/more patiently/cuter/WTH…did they just step out of a magazine…than you are. Mompete is a (sort of) verb. It’s the time when you choose to craft/cook/volunteer/say yes…against all better judgment because you don’t want […]
The Wizard of Oz and Motherhood
In 1939, Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland) rode her Kansas farmhouse through a tornado, landed it right on top of the Wicked Witch of the West, and tap-danced her sparkly ruby slippers down the Technicolor yellow brick road to find the Wizard of Oz so she could get home. On the way, she met the Scarecrow, […]
To the Parents on the Sidelines at Kids’ Sports…
Recently at my son’s baseball park, I broke up the argument (near-fistfight) of two dads whose panties were in a wad about something that had happened on the field during their 6-year-old sons’ game. I told them they could beat each other silly, but to please take it to the parking lot so every kid within a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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