Disclosure: I love Netflix. As a member of their Stream Team, I get to watch copious amounts of media for fun- er, work. Even though I’m compensated, each and every recommendation has been vetted by- let’s be honest- my children. This month’s #streamteam theme is family. Aww… *** Family- as I’ve suspected for a long time but have oh-so recently had cemented- is equal parts biology and community. Unrelated to distance in the slightest. And an evolving, all-encompassing down comforter {Read More}
Wedding Weekend 2: The Bride of Wedding Weekend.
May 14, 2015 By 2 Comments
So, as promised, here’s a smattering of my youngest sister’s #flynnpesq Wedding Weekend 2015 highlights. (Because we’d need a coffee table book for the whole dang shebang. We’d probably need to borrow a few more coffee tables, too.) And as I don’t yet have access to Em’s sure-to-be glorious wedding photos (and because my phone was someone else for the majority of the day), here are a few cobbled-together pix: The hotel had a salt water pool. It was freezing. {Read More}
Mother’s Day Monday (Observed).
May 11, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Being as it’s the Monday after a holiday, what better time to commemorate it via blog? Happy Monday after Mother’s Day, you guys. My day was spent sleeping in until 8:45 a.m. (!!!) and then getting treated to brunch down the street. A few things: the kids probably would’ve let me sleep even later than that, but my body clock fully acknowledged that any later than that would’ve felt like the shank of the day. And yes, parents “brunch” at {Read More}
A March Of Dimes #imbornto Party- Sans Kiddos.
May 9, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Disclaimer: I’ve been compensated by the March of Dimes to promote their #imbornto campaign, which celebrates all of the amazing things each and every baby is born to do. Visit the March of Dimes #imbornto site for more info! Even though content is sponsored, I wholly agree with the wonderful work the MoD does with pre and postnatal care, and all thoughts, opinions, and newborn envy are strictly my own. *** I’m a lucky person. I was chosen as one {Read More}
Return Of The Minivan: The Condiments Strike Back.
May 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Apologies for the nonexistent Monday post. During the time that I’d usually be publishing the Monday a.m. blog, we were careening somewhere across New York. Or maybe it was Pennsylvania by that point. Definitely not Ohio, and years away from being Indiana or Illinois, end-of-journey-wise. Here’s what I’ve learned about trekking halfway across the country in a minivan with three kids, aged 5.5 and under: Don’t do it. Stop. Why are you still thinking about it? Don’t be a jerk. {Read More}
Get Out Of Dodge: You’ve Lost Your Darned Mind Edition.
April 30, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Today’s post was brought to you by the letter B… …Because there ain’t gonna BE a real post… And the number 4 a.m…. …Because it’s 4 a.m. and I’m about to lift my sleeping children into car seats for our latest Midwest-to-East-Coast drive. A couple of answers to questions I can hear you thinking: Yes, that does seem excessive, but air travel costs plus the possibility of extending the travel to two broken-up days (each way) equated traveling for less {Read More}
Telling Tale Tales with Netflix And The #StreamTeam.
April 28, 2015 By Leave a Comment
As a member of Netflix’s #StreamTeam, I get to showcase fantastically curated content each month. April’s theme is Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire. Which I cannot relate to in my household at all. I’m lying. *** I may not have a PhD or anything (in fact, nothing even remotely resembling a PhD), but I’m a downright brilliant expert on one very specific part of my life: I know exactly when my children are lying to me. I don’t even have {Read More}
The March of Dimes, #imbornto, And MAN, I Was Cute.
April 28, 2015 By Leave a Comment
Pals, you might have noticed that I’ve been laying off of brands and campaign partners lately. With my Dad’s cancer treatments and devastating decline, I’ll be honest with you: Not a heck of a lot struck me as worth my brain space and, actually, felt eyeball-gratingly superficial. So you’ve got to trust me when I say that I jumped at the chance to work with the March of Dimes. My reasons are threefold: My Dad’s recent death has brought the {Read More}
