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Tomorrow is my all day, all 6th grade, Day of the Dead festival. I have never attempted anything on this scale before: organizing activities for 192 kids over f...

Since I first cleaned out my closet a couple years ago, I’ve done a good job of only keeping the items that “spark joy.” This means I have few...

I’ve spent a lot of the past few years trying to figure out what is most important to me. If I had more time, or more money (or gasp! more of both!) how a...

Finally, a fun day! 12:45am – Son wakes up coughing and needs to pee 7:10 – Son wakes up for day, upset about his bad cough, but also wanting to kno...

Whoa. Today was a doozy. 12:30am – Son wakes me up and takes a long time to go back down. 4:30 – Son wakes up needing to pee. 5:45 – Alarm wak...

…spew in this. The thing about 2-year-olds is they never tell you when they are going to throw up, they just projectile vomit all over everything in a thr...

Yesterday, around 10:30am, I got the call: my son had bit yet another classmate–the third biting incident this week–and was being suspended for two ...

Tomorrow my daughter will start first grade and my son will go to preschool without a diaper. I’m not quite sure how that happened. Time marches forward. ...

In early May (the weekend of Mother’s Day, in fact), I made a massive purchase that I never wrote about. I was nervous to write about it here because I...