Losing IT
TweetSometimes I’m a great mom, times like yesterday morning and afternoon when I walked all over town taking Wanda to the park and the library for story time. Then every once in a while I snap and...
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Almost a Rider
TweetMandy Hubbard spoke a couple of times to our SCBWI chapter today, her evening keynote being playfully titled “Rejection Sucks.” She makes me glad to be part of a community of writers. She was...
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Livin’ It Up in Hotlanta
Tweet I’m typing this from my room at the W Hotel in downtown Atlanta. The room is gorgeous and filled with swag from Coca-Cola. They’re hosting ~20 mom bloggers for a 2-day conference at their...
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The Magical Kathryn Thompson of My Dreams
TweetWhat Would Jesus Do? You see it on bracelets and bumper stickers, in books and on the radio. This is a question I ask myself a lot. But, sometimes it’s hard to wrap my head around the answer. I...
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Reluctant Red
Tweet“In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.” ~Mr. Darcy I love Taylor Swift against my will....
View ArticleWherein One of My Wildest Parenting Fantasies is Fulfilled on Mothers’ Day...
TweetSome Mothers’ Day gifts are planned. A hand squished in cement and bejeweled with fish tank marbles. A scarf. The hammock you texted a picture of to your husband and he asked if it was lame if you...
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Day of Moms
TweetDan made breakfast for breakfast and breakfast for dinner. They made me presents at school and I set up the hammock Dan bought me right in the middle of the living room so it wouldn’t get rained...
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I Tried so Bad!
TweetLately the kids in our family add “so bad” to the end of any sentence to mean they are really serious about what they’re saying. Examples: Cousin Ellie while swimming – “Kick so bad, mom. Kick so...
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Drops of Awesome – The Book – Coming Soonish
TweetI’m thrilled, in that YayButOhWOWIHaveTonsOfWorkToDo sort of way, to announce that I just signed on with California-based publisher Familius to create a book based on the ideas in my blog post,...
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The Numbers
TweetDan and I go to “MegaCorp” each year for a health screening. It’s a Know Your Numbers campaign. They want you to know all your numbers, your good and bad cholesterol, triglycerides, blood...
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Oh Deer! Oh Gnome!
TweetMaybe it was Amelie. Maybe it was southern summer nights. Maybe it was me. Maybe it was you. But I sure love gno-omes. Garden gnomes in animated films? Meh. But real, serious, ceramic, wood or...
View ArticleWho Do You Think You Are?
TweetI’m serving up a little introspection over at HowDoesShe.com today, courtesy of Magoo and a belching contest. You’re welcome. “Who are you, deep down in your cream-filled center? If you had a five...
View ArticleTo-Do or To-Done?
Tweet“To-Do or not To-Do, that is the question. I have a wide pendulum swing when it comes to To-Do lists. There are times when I am obsessively writing, writing, writing everything I will do on a...
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