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  I am not perfect, but I am perfect for you. I don’t have all the answers, but you never hesitate to ask me anything. I sometimes get sad, but you always know how to make me smile. I don’t…

Let’s talk about mental health. I’ll start… When I was 17 I was anorexic.  My mother had me in and out of doctor’s offices but none of them would tell her what she wanted to hear, what she knew to…

Maurice Sendak, children’s author, dies at 83

My husband and I gave up on the idea of going out for dinner after my daughter was born.  She was a high maintenance baby (which had a lot to do with her reflux) who cried a lot and also…

Make sure to check out the contests tab to see some great contests.  These are NOT my contests but contests I have entered that I wanted to share.  Many of them are from other bloggers so show your support and…

In my daily readings of various blogs, social media posts, “news” (I use the term loosely) articles, etc.  I have noticed a disturbing trend lately.  Mom bashing.  Perhaps it was always there and I just neglected to see it because…

I have fallen into a trap.  It’s the “Watcha got mommy?” trap that my daughter lays every day when I get home from work.  It started innocently enough, I’d run out on my lunch hour to do errands, pick up…

So my darling daughter did not come home with “mommy’s cherry panties” yesterday.  Ok, I didn’t expect her to still be wearing them but did expect them to be in her back pack or in her locker but they are…

Mornings are always interesting and seldom predictable in our household.  We have mommy and daddy getting ready for work while also trying to get an almost two year old ready for daycare. This morning was relatively smooth.  Molly decided she…