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I've been buying some terrible music off of iTunes recently, and it is breaking my heart. See, my oldest son, Sam, got an iPod for his birthday and let's just say that his musical taste...

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You guys, I don't want to freak you out or anything, but Thanksgiving is two days from now. I know. How did that happen?! Just thinking about it makes me a little panicky and sweaty. ...

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You know how there are those things about parenting that you assumed would be totally easy, but turned out to be anything but? Dressing three boys, who would presumably not much care wh...

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Today is election day, also known as The Day All the Horrible Phone Calls and Political Ads End. It is a good day. The problem for my family, however, is that my husband and I are on op...

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Last Halloween, my kids were happily trick or treating when we happened upon neighborhood friends of ours who were doing the same. Hooray, right? Wrong. One of the kids was wearing a Gh...

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Because I am mostly a stay-at-home mom, I am lucky enough to be able to volunteer in my kids' school classes. This is nice because I get to spy on them at the same time that they think I...

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If you've ever had a conversation with a new mom, chances are probably about a hundred percent that you talked about how the baby is sleeping and how tired the new mom is. This is becau...

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When my kids were much younger than they are now, I took them to a nature program about spiders at Brookside Nature Center. It was an evening program so we could see the spiders when they...