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It’s The Little Things
My life often feels like a circus, a zoo or whatever other metaphor you can come up with. It’s busy. Often chaotic. With 2 small children dashing around the place, there’s always someone asking for...
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The Worst Things About Parenting, No. 26: Thud Sounds
I live in a cantaloupe-free home. Whole cantaloupe is no longer allowed because when it rolls off the counter and hits the hardwood floor, it sounds exactly like my daughter’s head doing the same.As...
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What We’re Reading This Week: June 20th
Join us each Wednesday for a collection of stories, blog posts, and whatever else we’ve found interesting to check out.HUMORMoms Who Drink And Swear: Portraits Of MomNEWSToday Moms: Crib Note: District...
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50 Shades of I Totally Don’t Get It
I swear I don’t think about porn as often as I write about it, but I’m starting to seriously question my mental and sexual fitness, because I was left sweaty and panting reading “The Help” during all...
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Battle of the Muffin Top
Sadly, this is not a blog entry about wrestling the top of a tasty muffin away from my child, although that kind of behavior did contribute to the topic of today: that dreaded muffin top. I would love...
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The Good, The Bad, The Ugly And The F-Word
Tonight my daughter disagreed with a comment on Dancing with the Stars and yelled, “What the F-word?!?!?”The Good: She did not say the actual F-word.The Bad: She knows the F-word. She can use is...
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The Worst Things About Parenting, No. 27: Weird Names Becoming the Norm
Gerald used to be a good ol’ name for a kid. But now, it seems, everyone has to outdo each other with a more odd-ball child name. In 50 years, there will be no more Geralds.It’s important to remember...
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What We’re Reading This Week: June 28th
Join us each Wednesday for a collection of stories, blog posts, and whatever else we’ve found interesting to check out.HUMORBrittany Herself: A Totally Hypothetical In No Way Real STOP STARING AT ME...
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The Difference Between Me And Him
Last weekend, after being inspired by some friends who recently came to visit, my husband and I decided to take turns looking after the children so we could each have a lie-in. I use the term ‘lie-in’...
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Our Final Post
You might have noticed in the past few months, we’ve been a little quieter than our normal rowdy selves online. We took most of May off, and have spent less time on Twitter and in our other online...
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Blogging, Business and Philanthropy: Doing It Better
J. Money and Nate St. Pierre have a knack of building businesses together. And now, they’re utilizing their skills to help others with their own ventures.After I met J. Money, known largely for his...
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Welcome to the New It Builds Character
Photo credit: Istockphoto.comFor those of you who used to follow IBC, this is quite a different site than it used to be. In February 2011, I founded It Builds Character… and other parenting clichés. I...
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Parenting without a Parachute and Things I’ve Learned
My daughter is approaching her fourth birthday. I’d like to think that each year I gain some level of parental wisdom. For the most part, I think my waist is just getting thicker and my hair thinner....
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Supporting A Friend When There Is No Quick Solution
Photo credit: Toonarific.comFor those who used to read Plight of the Suburbanite, I’m rerunning an old post today. It’s not something I plan to do often, but when I read through it today, it resonated...
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The Chicago Marathon is on Sunday. I guess I should decide if I’m running it...
I have been battling myself for the past several months over the Chicago Marathon. The race is Sunday and I can count on one hand how many runs I’ve done in the past two months – and it wasn’t much...
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Accepting Compliments Gracefully, For Myself and My Kids
Do you accept compliments gracefully? I never have. I will wave it off, make a self-deprecating remark, laugh, dodge, stutter, turn red, and do anything possible to change the topic.It’s yet another...
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The Chicago Marathon: The Day I Never Expected
Last week, I was trying to determine whether or not I should run the Chicago Marathon. Aside from the small detail of not having trained well at all, my obligations in day-to-day life have been pretty...
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I Am Focused… Oh Look, Shiny…
I had the house to myself on Monday. For the first time in a while, I felt genuinely focused and determined.There’s a lot that is up in the air and I certainly haven’t found m sense of “routine”...
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The Space for a “Remembery”
The other night marked the 29th anniversary of my mom’s passing. For those who haven’t read about her before, she died of cancer just before I turned eight, and days before she would have turned...
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The time my four year old cut her own hair
Although there are many moments when I wonder what my mother would think about me now as a parent, there are also those moments where I know with absolute certainty that she is looking down, cackling a...
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