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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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Pants Optional, Sanity Sold Separately
This morning, I forgot my pants. Not all the way, don’t worry, leggings were involved. But I walked out the door with one kid holding a juice pouch, one with a bag full of everything except the iPad we needed, screaming don’t leave me I need my headphones in her adorable two year old way … Meanwhile, I’m standing…
Crumbs and Chaos 