A common question I heard asked among the attendees at BlogHer ’10 was: “So, do you miss your kids?” I felt like a troll each time I answered, “No, not really.” If pressed about it (which I wasn’t), I might have offered “Well, we did just spend four weeks on the road together,” or “I [...]

A few weeks ago my husband and I took our daughters to see the musical Wicked.  Our seats were high up and cramped, but we managed to enjoy the first act and get some good stretches in during intermission.  Sometime during the second act, my husband leaned over and complained he was feeling sick.  His [...]

A month is a long time for a 2yo boy to be constantly restricted to a car seat, surrounded by his jabbering siblings, sleeping on hotel and bedroom floors, and being generally dragged this way and that.  But such a month also seems to have contained the magic formula for transforming said 2yo boy from [...]

Years ago my oldest sister warned me that daughters are abducted by aliens at about age 9.  I laughed it off as uniquely her motherhood experience, sure that my own daughters would remain grounded and true to my idea of who they were. {pausing for the laughter to die down} My oldest daughter didn’t enter her [...]

This week my friends, family, and followers on Facebook and Twitter have been subjected to my “Saga of the Cub Scout Day Camp” updates.  My 9yo son is a Bear in  Cub Scouts, and in order for his pack to go to camp, a handful of us needed to step up and volunteer for the [...]

Lately, my 2yo son Eli and I have been having exhanges that go a little something like this: ELI:  [misbehaves/does something naughty] ME:  [raise my voice and express my displeasure] ELI:  [voice cracking, eyes sincere...]  I sorry, Mom.  I sorry.  I sorry.  I sorry.  [continued ad infinitum until I interrupt by saying...] ME:  Okay, Eli, [...]

Watch what fun ensues when I ask what my kids think about me and about motherhood in general. First posted on the Johnson & Johnson Health Channel on YouTube. Visit the Johnson & Johnson Health Channel on YouTube for more excellent Mother’s Day videos. *Disclosure: I was invited by Johnson & Johnson to submit a [...]

(for more Top Ten Tuesday posts, visit – for this Tuesday only – ohamanda’s stand-in,  it’s come 2 this) Though I’ve shed plenty of tears over my teenage daughters, I have never subscribed to the belief that the teenage years are inevitably difficult for a parent to enjoy. There may be times, ages, and stages [...]

My oldest daughter is a sophomore in high school, and I knew to expect the flood of college brochures and postcards we’d start getting in the mail toward the end of this school year. What I did not expect were the other letters – some of them Very Important with Great News for Your Child [...]

Our 8yo son is having a great time playing soccer for the first time, but we’re having some issues and concerns with his experience. I’d love to share the situation and discuss it with other parents, so I added it as one of the newest forum topics in my new BLOGFROG COMMUNITY. It’s really more [...]