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Cruising with Kids on the Carnival Liberty – Family Vacation
Ahh, vacation. Sand in your toes, sunshine warming your skin, piña colada in your hand, and some island beats floating over the waves. You slip back into your lounge chair, and for a blink close your...
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Mango Pancakes with Rum Glaze
Always looking for new pancake recipes? Mango Pancakes with Rum Glaze…It’s like eating healthy dessert for breakfast! I am not usually one to brag, but just ride along with me for a moment because this...
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150+ Activities for Kids on Summer Break + Summer Schedule for Kids – FREE...
Happy Weekend! Quick post today, I just wanted to share these FREE PRINTABLES with you all of 150+ Activities and Adventures for Kids on Summer Break and a Daily Summer Schedule for Kids. I made this...
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The Secret to the Juiciest Chicken You’ll Ever Make – Shhh!
I am going to let you in on a little secret today. I say little because in truth, it’s so simple it shouldn’t even be a secret. But, I am the only one in my household who knows this. Each weekend, I...
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Before You Start a Blog: Question Your Life
If you’ve come to this blog via Pinterest or a link to a post that’s no longer live, I apologize for your disappointment. It’s been about a week since my blog has been offline. Maybe longer, actually....
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She Doesn’t Want Roses
She doesn’t want roses. She doesn’t want diamonds. She doesn’t want chocolate, a giant teddy bear, or a dinner date. She wants you. She wants you to be there. She wants you to look at her, and make...
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A Letter to the Father Who Won’t Pay Child Support
Dear father who won’t pay child support, I just want to know one thing. Do you know what you’re doing? Ask yourself, aside from financial assistance, what else are you doing? When is the last time you...
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Tongue Tied
I don’t have time to write. I don’t have time to write, or do anything else, because I have small children at home. No. I don’t have the attention span to write. I don’t have the energy to write. I...
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Dear Mommy Blogger
This is it. I’m fucking done. Video killed the radio star. I’m killing the mommy blog. You won’t want to hear any of this, but someone needs to tell you. Let me preface with a few important things. I...
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Women Who Deserve Sexism
In case you missed it over the weekend, I wrote a few thousand brutally honest words about why mommy blogging is a dying industry and the women in it should find something better to do with their...
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Please Stop Growing Up
On the top shelf of my children’s closet, there is an old Pampers box taped sloppily shut. Inside that box is a plastic zipper bag that once housed a comforter or something. And inside that are dozens...
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Apology
“Is there something about me, that if other people know it or see it, that I won’t be worthy of connection?” Brené Brown, a research professor whose TED talk about the power of vulnerability has been...
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Quiet
something about pregnancy makes me quiet. like, write in all lowercase letters, speak in all whispers, disappear for months kind of quiet. obviously. at the same time, it makes me fierce. nine months...
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Bookmark Baby
True, you can’t press a flower as a keepsake between two blog pages. You can’t accidentally splatter coffee on them, or watch saltwater drops spread across words if you cry. You can’t stumble upon...
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But I Loved Him
[trigger warning] These goddamn photos. August 9, 2015. You know that feeling when your mouth starts to salivate right before you vomit? This girl’s eyes look fucking dead. I make eye contact with her,...
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Words and Whatnot
//Words My next door neighbors have a pig. Well, they had a pig. And then that pig got sick and died, and they got a new mini pig, according to my five year old daughter who is more social than I am...
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Morning
Soft grey light right before sunrise, and waking up to you in our bed. I don’t mind that I can’t sleep. I couldn’t dream a better picture than you, with your chest rising and falling slowly and your...
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Chrysalis
I am not afraid of the dark. I know you are. I see it in your eyes, watching me. I hear the caution in your voice, asking me how my day went. You are afraid of this darkness. I wish I could be like...
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Merry Materialism
We are drowning in stuff, and we know Santa Claus isn’t real. The alarm goes off, the baby cries, the toddler is yelling for milk, the school kids need help brushing their hair. I steal a couple...
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How to Hope
There are too many words today. I feel the need to choose mine carefully. There are also too many tears, but I don’t know how to limit those. A rusty pickup truck rattles down the road, bumper...
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