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On Play Dates And Guns

May 2, 2013

I have an eight-year-old son, and as much as I have tried to steer him to playtime activities that don’t involve an element of violence, it hasn’t worked. For years, I allowed no violent toys. No violent video games, no Lego sets that came with guns, no Nerf guns, no water guns, nothing. keep reading [...]

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Fear

April 29, 2013

Michael said to me last week “Mom, you aren’t afraid of ANYTHING.” And I said “Michael, you have NO IDEA. I’m scared of lots of things Next week, I have to stand on a stage in front of 300 people and read something I wrote. And hope they don’t hate it. I’m not just scared [...]

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Shoe Friday #222: Listen To Your Mother Edition, Again

April 26, 2013

JJ’s shoes: She will be wearing them on Sunday during Listen To Your Mother. Come, see them, and the entire awesome show, in person. Tickets are still available. _______________ And because I’m not done talking about Listen To Your Mother, I did a write up for The Dc Moms.

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WiiiiiiiiU

April 23, 2013

Disclosure: I am a Nintendo Social Media Ambassador. I was not paid for this post. What this means is that from time to time Nintendo sends me products, and this time, I got to throw a fun party, for free. They did not ask for, or even request, this post. All opinions expressed are my [...]

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Countdown

April 21, 2013

Listen to Your Mother is less than a week away, and to say I’m nervous would be an under statement. It is not the public speaking that makes me nervous….I speak in public all the time as part of my “real life” job. It is speaking in public in front of YOU. Yes you, the [...]

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Shoe Friday #221

April 19, 2013

Kris’ shoes:

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This Is Why You Should Be Gchatting With Me

April 18, 2013

I love Gchat. I know, everyone else loves Facebook chat, be since I scorn all things Facebook, this is an actual gchat I was having a few nights ago with my friend Kim. I’m HILARIOUS on gchat. Kim: I entered a contest to go to Charleston, SC and visit a tea plantation owned by Bigelow. [...]

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Forgiveness

April 16, 2013

I received a “this person is following you on twitter” notice last week and I almost fell out of my chair. HOW DARE that person follow me on twitter. Don’t they remember WHAT HAPPENED. And then I realized that WHAT HAPPENED was 4 years ago and I am the only person on the planet that [...]

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Things My Husband Won’t Let Me Do

April 14, 2013

I went and got my nails done on Friday. I picked this color. I love it: My manicurist wasn’t so sure. “It’s really blue…it’s really blue, but you are young. Will your husband let you pick that color?” “Um, what? My husband doesn’t LET me do anything…the only thing my husband FORBIDS me to do [...]

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