By Erin Oltmanns
My family has spent the last week passing around a nasty case of stomach flu.
This is our second round of stomach flu this year...so that flu shot we dutifully marched to the Doctor to get?
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By Carina
It's summer time and you know what that means: children who are constantly, incessantly hungry. I laughed out loud at this parody of the Hunger Games: the Hungry Games.
It's funny because it's true!
(I hope the taquitos I threw in the microwave will give me enough time to finish this post!...
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By Tracy Beckerman
Most people go through their adolescence when they are actually adolescents. For me, it happened a bit later… When I was 35. I remember the day my unsusp...
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By Tracy Beckerman
Dear Friends and Family,
Woo-hoo… It’s almost a new decade!! Happy almost New Year to everyone! We hope you have had as great a year as we have!!
I know this has been a tough time for many people with the economy being so bad, the Swine Flu outbreak, and a shortage of Uggs, so I will t...
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By Tracy Beckerman
Looks like you’re having a party,” said the woman on the supermarket checkout line behind me. I gave her a withering smile. I could see where this was going. I didn’t want to be rude, but I was not in the mood for a conversation about my food choices with a total stranger. Did I say an...
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By Tracy Beckerman
When my daughter was little, she missed a number of school days with what I thought was the flu. It was winter. Flu was going around. It made sense to me. But it wasn’t long before I realized what she actually had was a bad case of “I-don’t-want-to-go-to-school-itis.” In case you a...
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By Tracy Beckerman
“OH, NO!!” groaned my son. “The chinchilla ate my homework!”
This might be an odd thing to hear your child say, if it weren't our house, and the fact that we do, actually, own a chinchilla, who does, sometimes, chew up things he's not supposed to.
My son held up two sheets of pap...
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By Tracy Beckerman
“You found a WHAT in your bathroom?” I shouted to my brother over the phone.
“A scorpion,” he said, rather nonchalantly.
Although he did not seem too bothered, I found this to be rather disturbing news. My brother does not live in the middle of the desert, on a prairie, or in the rai...
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By Tracy Beckerman
When you have a daughter in the house, there is always the chance that you will end up covered in glitter.
I’m not sure why little girls are such fans of glitter, but they are. Maybe like big girls, they like pretty, shiny things. Glitter could be like training-bling, or something like that...
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By Guest Post
Guest Post from Tiffany Beveridge, The Would-Be Writers Guild
If it takes a village to raise a child, then it takes the Village People to raise a mom. Okay, that wasn’t the best metaphor, but bear with me.
Let’s face it—motherhood is on-the-job training. You can read a lot of books a...
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