by Stephanie | Jul 27, 2014 | motherhood, parenting
Welcome back to the Brilliant Book Club! Five bloggers– Deb of Urban Moo Cow, Sarah of Left Brain Buddha, Jessica of School of Smock, Lauren of omnimom, and I– read and discuss a current parenting book. We hope you’ve been reading along with us-...
by Stephanie | Jul 21, 2014 | family life, motherhood
Some of you may know about my song parody series, ParentZ Bop, where parents send me their rewritten lyrics to a popular song and I sing it. I’ve taken a little hiatus in my effort to slow down over the summer, and it’s been a few months since I recorded a...
by Stephanie | Jun 17, 2014 | family life, funny, motherhood
This week is my two-year anniversary as a blogger! We affectionately refer to these occasions as “blogiversaries” in the blog world. I’m going to commemorate it by sharing one of my favorite stories. I wrote this post during my second month as a...
by Stephanie | Jun 12, 2014 | family life, motherhood
Dear Dad, Father’s Day isn’t quite what it used to be. Instead of carefully selecting tacky, golf-related items for you to cheerfully open, now my daughters and I pick out useless junk for my husband to exclaim over. Same routine, different viewpoint, I...
by Stephanie | May 20, 2014 | family life, motherhood
I love Brain, Child magazine. I have a big-time crush on them; one day, I aspire to write for their website or magazine. Their essays always succeed in either making me think, laugh, or cry, or any combination thereof. So I knew that their new book, This is...
by Stephanie | May 15, 2014 | motherhood
One spring weekend, many years ago, before I became a mother, I sat on my crappy townhouse deck with two of my favorite people. Over some inconsequential cocktail that I can no longer recall, the three of us shared parts of ourselves with one another. We became...