Dear Other Parents, Okay, deep breath, here goes. I want to ask a small favor of you. A small favor with HUGE implications. Please, pleeeeease, pretty please with sugar on top and chocolate and vodka and maybe even a little cash or whatever else you want. Can we all please just do each other a…
Oy vey, someone get me some Pepto Bismol stat because my stomach feels like it’s full of a swarm of butterflies that all have Montezuma’s Revenge. Why? Because we have until next Tuesday to decide whether to send our kiddos back to school in person. It’s weird because I kinda know my decision already, but…
Dear parents who are getting a doctor’s note so your kid doesn’t have to wear a mask to school, So the other day I was talking to a friend and she told me about you guys. How you guys are getting notes from doctors so your kids don’t have to wear masks to school this…
Fifty packets, over 6000 pieces, hours and hours of tedious work bent over clicking thousands of pieces together. And then finally. Behold!!! The magnificent Hogwarts Castle! The Taj Mahal! The Millennium Falcon! And that’s when seven words go through your head: WTF do we do with this thing?
Where the heck is Traverse City? Never heard of it. I mean I’m not gonna drop a boatload of dough to go to a place I’ve never even heard of. Then the pandemic happened. And everything changed. Suddenly the thought of cramming inside a metal capsule with 100+ germy strangers to fly somewhere didn’t sound…
Zoey is eleven. I’m saying that right out of the gate so people know. And please don’t send me a bunch of nasty hate comments because your kiddo’s younger than that and they have TikTok and it’s absolutely fine. If your kiddo has it and it’s working for you, by all means, keep going. I’m…
Warning!! Empty your mouth of any and all food, drinks and other stuff before reading this post. I am not kidding. Swallow whatever’s in your mouth right now. Because if you don’t, it’s coming straight out your nose and it’s gonna hurt like a mofo. If you asked me at the beginning of the Coronavirus…
We went into lockdown on March 13th and almost immediately Zoey asked the question that was bothering her the most. “Will this be finished by my birthday?” And I knew the answer. No. It broke my heart to tell her. I mean Zoey literally starts thinking about her next birthday party the second her last…
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So yesterday I went out for a walk (if I didn’t get the heck out of my house, I was going to go bananas and freak out on someone), and I decided to listen to a podcast. It was The Daily and the episode was about this woman named Jasmine who owns a restaurant in…