Let Your Freak Flag Fly!

You are a Mama. You are amazing. You have let something slip. Yourself. Before you were the queen of the minivan set; sporting insane schedules from soccer to cello; you had a medium. You expressed yourself. How? What did you do to let your freak flag fly? Did you sing in Karaoke bars? Did you… [Continue Reading]

Oh Yeah, Bring on the Mud AND the Rope Climb

The Power Of The Letter P

I gave a lecture last night on Family & Child Safety 101 and in a nut shell the talk centered on 3 P’s – Planning, Practicing and Participating. I gave it some thought, and while it is an easy ditty, pointed, simple, easy to remember, it really spills over into everything when you think about… [Continue Reading]

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Ease Your Stress with LESS

Have you started getting them already? Email’s from your Fall Coaches telling you of practices starting already, as in this week, for Fall Sports that your children will be shuttled too in the months ahead? Has the panic started? I know it has at my house! Yes, school starts in a few short weeks. As… [Continue Reading]

Enjoying Fall Color reduces stress, just try it!

Pumped Up Kicks

Keeping your head, when others seem to have lost theirs. A lot of parenting is looking around. Since High School (maybe before really) we have taken our social ques by watching, emulating and creatively adjusting ourselves into what we think is appropriate. Some of us more than others, some of us less then others, but… [Continue Reading]

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Get Outside And PLAY

Has back to school night come and gone and all the amazing activities at your school has begun you and your family on a fast track of over committed misery? You too? Well…let me be the first to ask you to ease up off the throttle, remember that over committing yourself and your children (not… [Continue Reading]

Loving Being Outside

Your True Self – Who Is She?

  My reflection……. cue the music……. Talking Heads, David Byrne saying “How did I get here?”   When I became a stay at home mom I had high hopes of making many friends with other moms and truly enjoy being at home. Sadly I was delusional, I didn’t like it as much as I thought… [Continue Reading]

While the masks may be beautiful denying your true self is not

The Zen Mama

Julianne with the guy who truly makes HER feel like a Zen Mama, her hubby, Harry! This illusive creature can be seen rolling into school pick up lines everywhere. She is punctual, together and just plain on it. She appears to calmly move through her sea of fellow frantic (and…in my case…usually late Mamas) with… [Continue Reading]

Julianne with the guy who truly makes HER feel like a Zen Mama, her hubby, Harry!

Rookie Moves…And Other Disasters

It’s Monday morning. Things are insane. The house? Fuh-ghet-about-it. It is in shambles. A weekend of comings and goings, play dates, competitions, dogs, cats, insanity has left you sure that it will take you all week to recover only to do this again NEXT Monday. You drink your coffee as you realize that your children… [Continue Reading]

Me & My Mini Me

Lice Knowing You

Yes you read that right. Lice. Let’s talk about the creepy crawlers. Disclosure: Today was just plain gross. If you want to skip this post, by all means, since I wish I could expunge it from my memory databanks, I completely give you permission to walk on by and forget that I said anything. That… [Continue Reading]

Me & my Mini Me's - Heads Up!

Friendships – A Learning Curve

The Learning Curve We know as parents that there will be late nights, worried phone calls, extensive and often stressful “discussions” as a family and lots of lessons to impart. The truth is, these “lessons” or “Come To Jesus” meetings in my house (forgive me) are often the breeding grounds for fantastic conversations. We all… [Continue Reading]

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The Tooth Fairy Reality Busted

Suspending Reality In The Game Parenthood is a long ride but sometimes the short stops take your breath away. You remember how we HATED it when our parents said stupid stuff like, “Wow, just yesterday you were a baby, now look at you! You are growing so FAST!” and all we could think was not… [Continue Reading]

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Women…According To A 9 Year Old

Women…according to my son I must be doing something right. No really. While talking with a friend, she noticed that my son was very attentively listening while she was talking. I explained it was her thick Irish accent. “Mommy talks like a leprechaun when she gets tired, or hungry or did not have her coffee”… [Continue Reading]

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Taking It To The Streets

Take The Long Way Home  Start singing with me… “Take the long way home…oooh yeah…take the long way home…” (Supertramp Rocks) When I was a child, in the days that the dinosaurs roamed (ok not really) I walked to and from school every day. I started at Kindergarten and the walk seemed to take forever… [Continue Reading]

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Science Night Madness!

Science Skills Excited children around the country are entering a phase known to parents as Science Night Mania. From Maine to California and everywhere in between, soda pop experiments, rocket launches, and mold experiments are occurring in and around households as frazzled moms try to keep it as clean and safe as possible. If you… [Continue Reading]

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