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My Dear Family, Please accept this letter as my notice of resignation for the position of laundress (a.k.a. “Laundry Fairy”), effective immediately.

Dear 16-Year-Old Me, Wow, I can’t believe how young you look. I can’t believe I’m almost double your age already. It’s like I blinked and someone handed me a husband, two babies and a minivan. I KNOW! We swore we’d never own one. We were wrong. About lots of things. Imagine that.

Reader’s Digest version of the events that led to the creation of this How-to Tuesday post: 1) Hubby and I need a babysitter to look after the kiddos once or twice a week. 2) I find a great candidate online and ask her to come over for an interview. 3) My friend Staci mentions that […]

Those of you who follow me on Facebook might remember a photo album I created entitled “Really, America?” It is an album that received a ton of criticism – 100% of it from my mother who said I sounded like a snob who just moved back from England and is now too good to live […]

Thanks to everyone for the social media love – on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. Please “like” me or “follow” me if you haven’t already (that just felt creepy) because there are lots of other prizes to give away in the weeks and months to come! The very first give-away is a copy of my book […]

Captain Morgan (my husband’s name and rank…seriously) and I played a little game tonight we like to call “Identify the Source of that Smell.” Turns out we had several to choose from in the refrigerator.

It horrifies my mother that my family doesn’t have television. She can’t understand that kind of silence and how it could be healthy for a person. As if network television is the stuff that sanity is made of? My mom and I are different that way.

Remember how I said last week that my husband thought maybe I shouldn’t home school our kids because of the damage I could do? You don’t? Okay, well read this first. So, in an effort to entice our almost 2 1/2-year-old to use the toilet rather than $10,000 worth of diapers or MY LEG, I […]