This post was sponsored by Cottonelle. This Saturday, I’m going to the Kentucky Derby. I can’t believe it either. Cottonelle is a sponsor of the big event and I will be a Cottonelle Correspondent. That means I have the tough job of hanging out with celebrities in the Cottonelle Clean Room, where Derby VIPs can […]
April 30, 2014
When my Anthropologie catalog arrives in the mail, it’s a true cause for celebration- I can thumb through its pages and blissfully lose myself in a mind-blowing alternate reality that Tim Burton himself would envy, a place where gigantic scissors, paper chickens, and four foot houses are completely normal. But don’t take my word for […]
April 24, 2014
The children were asleep in their beds, an empty bottle of cheap champagne lay on its side, and the credits from Mad Men played on the television screen. These were all the ingredients necessary for a romantic date night, parent-style, and at this point a happy ending was pretty much guaranteed. “I’ll see you upstairs,” […]
April 22, 2014
I live in Tennessee where, despite laws limiting smoking in public places, plenty of people still do it. Hey, if you want to destroy your lungs, go for it. It’s your life and your decision. I just have one simple request: Don’t smoke around my kid. You’d think this would go without saying– but way […]
April 21, 2014
The end of the school year is nigh, and in addition to the usual frantic summer scheduling for the kids that fills up much of my spare time in April and May, we’ve also been busy trying to figure out where my ten year old will attend school next year. Punky will graduate from elementary […]
April 17, 2014
Dear Bruiser, This time last year, you were still my adventurous little kindergartner with a mouth full of baby teeth. What a difference a year makes. Between then and now, you’ve shot up several inches, lost most of those baby teeth, and transitioned from a little boy into a big one. And when I look […]
April 14, 2014
I’ll be the first to admit that I love seeing the Pottery Barn catalog in the mail. I can totally lose myself in its pristine, people-free pages, and dream of a magical place where clutter and scuff marks and bad smells and stains and toilets and LEGOs don’t exist. Just imagine if your house were […]
April 9, 2014
As a parent, I’ve stood on the sidelines of recreational sports leagues for 12 years now, and I’m convinced that we as a nation have completely lost sight of what youth recreational sports could and should be about. Instead of providing a supportive environment for all children to learn to play a sport regardless of […]
April 7, 2014
