What I want my daughter to know about the mean girls

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My tiny human, my gorgeous darling, my little one – you are a girl. You are our first girl and I will never stop celebrating it.  You are a gorgeous, dimpled, delicious, just-one-year-old baby girl. And my darling, there’s some stuff that comes with being a girl that I want to tell you about. Most [...]

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For when you think you’re failing motherhood {quick, break glass and read this book instead!}

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I’ve often felt motherhood was a test I was failing. Less so lately. But at the sleep-deprived beginning I would read all those books that tell you when the baby should be sleeping and when the baby should be eating and when the baby should be this, that, and the other thing-ing and all I [...]

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Because sometimes reading someone else’s story can be like coming home

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We are the sum total of our stories. So when we sit down at the computer and open a vein we offer life to someone else. We pour out what we’ve learned or failed to learn as a lifeline to someone else. We offer our stories across computer screens, transfusion-like. On Wednesday morning I re-live [...]

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We are the Sunday Morning people

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It’s good Friday. Resurrection Sunday is coming. I needed much more than five minutes. But you’re still so welcome to link up your Five Minute Friday posts below. The prompt is “light.” Some days when I see ugly, hard, hurting places in the world I want to counter them with beauty. I want to bury [...]

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In which I podcast about crushed Cheerios, my middle name and Downton Abbey

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Remember that one time I told you I was going to do a podcast with Tsh from Simple Mom? And you all sent fun question ideas? Well, it happened and you can listen along with us as I talk about my middle name, why I don’t think I’m cool enough to be a “Rachel” and [...]

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The Cheerleader for Tired Moms {a free printable & EBook announcement!}

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I think motherhood should come with a super hero cape and a cheerleader. My {free} ebook The Cheerleader for Tired Moms might be the next best thing. Enter your email address and it’s coming your way just before Mother’s Day! Delivered by Click here to download a free copy of your own personal cheerleader, because [...]

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5 ways to make your wife smile: #1 leave her love notes

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I told him not to buy me anything for Valentine’s this year. Just to write me a love letter. He liked the idea but his schedule was uncooperative. That was a month ago. This morning I stumble into the bathroom pre-contact lenses and peer at an envelope that seems to have found it’s way onto [...]

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When they ask you what you did today

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“So,” he asks me. “What did you do today?” And I think about lists checked off and conference calls and the crock pot I had to run through the dishwasher and still rinse out by hand. I think about the four rooms that I vacuumed and the EBook cover design I’m excited about. I think [...]

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This is so weird, but I’m just gonna get over myself and ask anyway…

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So, have you heard of the website, Simple Mom? It’s fabulous. My friend Tsh is the awesome sauce behind it. And as part of Simple Mom she hosts a podcast called Home Fries. Tomorrow she’s interviewing me. And she said we should see if there’s anything in particular folks would like to know, about, well, [...]

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What women moms want

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When I’m reeealllly tired and my brain starts to wonder far, far away from our Cheerio-encrusted floor, these are the things I day-dream about: To go to the bathroom without an audience A hot meal Not to have to cut up any food but their own Make up that hasn’t been repurposed as face paint [...]

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