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Love Is A Potty Word
Potty training Harper has been… a battle I was not winning. She’s smart, she’s verbal, she gets it, and she flat-out refuses. Her official title? “The Big Girl Baby.” We’ve tried everything: stickers, toys, treats, even the promise of a beach house trip. Nope. She just looks me dead in the eye and says, “I’m…
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I Might Have Just Auditioned for “So You Think You Can Dance”
I signed up for an adult dance class at my kids’ studio. A just-for-fun class. In my head, it was going to be Dirty Dancing magic, that scene where everything just clicks, my hips suddenly know what they’re doing, and I look like a total smoke show. Then my husband said, “Enjoy socializing with adults!” That’s when it hit…
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Bath Time Barbie Battles
Tonight’s bath started out innocent enough. The girls were playing “bathtime Barbies,” splashing around, giggling. It was loud, but the happy kind of loud. Then, like kids do, it escalated. Suddenly, Barbie diplomacy failed and it turned into a full-blown water war. Screaming, splashing, and a fierce debate over which side of the tub belonged…
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Chaos Then vs Chaos Now
Fifteen years ago, I was a 20-something mom with a house full of kids under six. My mornings were a carefully choreographed disaster. On this particular day, all my kids were miraculously loaded into the car by 7:20. They were calm—which should have been my first clue something was about to go wrong. Calm is…
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Haunted Rooms and Heavy Hearts
Nine years ago, Hailey walked into the room and casually announced: “Mom, my room is haunted. But it’s okay, he’s nice.” And that was it. She shrugged, smiled, and skipped away like she had just told me we were out of Pop-Tarts. Meanwhile, I was standing in the middle of our 100-year-old house, holding myself…
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Wall Licking, Hissing, and Pepperoni Politics
This week’s parenting highlight reel: • My six-year-old has started licking walls. Not once. Not for a dare. This is a lifestyle choice. I threatened to take her iPad. She shrugged… and licked the wall again. ( I’m just praying drywall isn’t a food group.) • Harper has learned to hiss from our cats. Which means my children now hiss at…
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Before Coffee, There Was Chaos
This morning started with a luxurious 2.5 hours of sleep because I stayed up way too late illustrating my next book. Enter: the panicked teenage phone call. Her ride to practice wasn’t arranged. Today’s the “big run-through.” She cannot miss it. Cue me, stumbling out the door like a zombie on a mission, carting a sleeping Harper…
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I Fought the Tooth-fairy and I Won
Parenting comes with a long list of titles: chef, chauffeur, therapist, referee. But sometimes? You add Tooth Fairy Bounty Hunter to the résumé. My son lost a tooth. But the Tooth Fairy? She lost credibility. She forgot him…again He was around 10 or 11, just old enough to know better, but still young enough to want the magic.…
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Mayhem & Magic of Makeup
Makeup tutorials say “10 minutes to flawless.” In this house, 10 minutes means mascara on me, lipstick on Harper, and a suspicious sticky mess on the cat. Perfectly normal, right? Let’s get one thing out of the way: I am not one of those women. You know the ones… glowing skin, flawless foundation, winged eyeliner so sharp…
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Potato in the Pantry, Crackers in the Fridge
They say don’t cry over spilled milk, but no one warned me about finding a potato in the pantry snack bin… or a sleeve of crackers tucked neatly beside the turkey in the deli drawer. At this phase of motherhood, my greatest hack is the self-serve snack drawer in the fridge…stocked with fruits, cheese sticks,…
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Crumbs and Chaos 