Our Frozen acting troupe is available for all your birthday parties, all your plays, all your Ren Fests, all your street performances, and all your family gatherings. Actually, family gatherings are their absolute specialty. This group of ENTHUSIASTIC SINGERS is fantastic at crooning out every word of the Disney songs at the top of their...Continue Reading
Can I get an AMEN on how hard it is to get the family to church on Sunday morning? For real, y’all. It’s no picnic on school mornings either, but the difference there is that the grown-ups aren’t sticking around at school. As soon as the kids are settled, we’re free to get breakfast or...Continue Reading
No, of course the best advice is not that you should sleep when your baby sleeps. This is actually terrible advice. If you do this, you will be spending every single one of your waking hours with a moody, grouchy roommate who is prone to violent temper tantrums and insists you fulfill every one of...Continue Reading
During Spring Break, the kids and I spent the day at a friend’s house. And by house I mean farm with horses, zebras, peacocks, longhorns, and chickens. Like the roles farm-visitors have played for centuries, our family fit the city kids stereotype perfectly. Our hosts (the farm kids) were patient when my kids complained their...Continue Reading
In my 20s and 30s face masks were a skin boon. Look how my skin can glow! This tourmaline mask promises to make my skin dewey–and it does! Will you look at the difference just a bit of effort makes? I need the face masks now. No big payoff, but I do look 39 when...Continue Reading
Our new favorite family pastime is watching videos from when the kids were all really young. I know they’re all really young right now too, but these videos are when they were tiny young. Most are 30-second iPhone videos of shaky first steps and first tastes of peas. The kids love seeing their toddler...Continue Reading
At twenty-two, I was a fresh-faced college graduate, thrilled to be headed to Houston for my first teaching job. I had seen Dangerous Minds and Dead Poet’s Society, so I knew teaching would be hard. Thanks to these movies, I fully expected to introduce my inner-city/poor rich kids to the importance of literature. Shortly after that,...Continue Reading
As near as I can tell, women fit into two categories when it comes to our homes. The first group is those of us who have little kids and are still dedicating most of our time to physically nurturing them. Yes, we know the pictures on our walls are horribly outdated, we realize the fake...Continue Reading
This weekend Elisabeth finally learned to ride a bike. She mastered this skill a full two years after Sam–not that anyone around here is keeping track. (This is a joke. Twins are always keeping track. Elisabeth didn’t notice Sam zooming around on two wheels like Sam doesn’t notice Elisabeth is a full inch taller than she...Continue Reading
For all the cooks who nourish their families, who make three meals a day, who buy all the groceries, who do the sinkfuls of dishes, who freeze and reserve the leftovers, who think about what to make for breakfast while drifting to sleep…this is for you. For the cooks who cook eggs benedict for their...Continue Reading
