teenagers

Play My Friday Night Fun Quiz

May 17, 2013

I figured if you have been on my blog even just a little, you might enjoy my new game called… Who Dat? Here is how it works. I will post a picture or a story and you get to guess, “Who Dat?” I will give you a hint to assist your answer. Whomever gets the [...]

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I Need You

March 6, 2013

For three mornings my husband Jim has listened to what my mornings are like with our kids. He is on vacation this week and with no where to go, as the kids are not on break. Today they shamed him into driving them to school. His parting words? “Boarding school cannot possibly cost much more [...]

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We Are Happy! We Are!

February 13, 2013

For the love of Pete if they are making this face in the first Disney pic I take will they be mooning me by Sunday? Just landed in Orlando! Disney World here we come! Can’t believe we left Jim home to work. Whoo-hoop!!!!! Love me some Disney magic! Abbie Gale and my band of merry [...]

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Unlovable but Likable

November 30, 2012

You can use the state of my closet as an indicator to know my current mental status. My closet told me today I was bat-$hit crazy. I have decided if I clean out my closet I will be able to carry on with my Christmas decorating and baking. If, when I am finished, I do [...]

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Watching Old Sitcoms With Our Kids

July 3, 2012

We rented Smurfs to watch with our boys. Peter, then seven, announced when he saw Neil Patrick Harris, “DOOGIE IS IN THIS MOVIE! THERE IS DOOGIE HOWSER!”

Avery, who is twelve, looked at his younger brother with a very annoyed and sophisticated look said to Peter, “That is NOT Doogie. I read this book and Doogie is not in the story at all.”

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The Trouble With Trends

June 30, 2012

The trouble with trends is they come back. They are cyclical. A swing of a pendulum and we go from neons to pastels and from pointy high heels to round toe ballet shoes.

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My Boys Put Me on a Dating Website? I’m Married to Their Father!

June 26, 2012

Find girls? Why sure if I am a little boy! I will click you and log onto your website via my mom’s accounts because she doesn’t have passwords on HER computer.

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Moment You Realize You Have Done Too Much For Your Kids…

May 1, 2012

I could make a tiered red velvet cake at his age, alone. I remember my mom handing me the keys to her Mazda when I was eleven and her saying, “Go get some bread and milk.” And I did. Doesn’t mean that it was right, but I could do it. He genuinely could not get his shoes laced up. He was mad and he was mad at me for not doing it for him.

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Teenagers? I just want to survive two, twelve year-olds.

April 14, 2012

We watched “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” with our boys last night. Honestly, the thought of watching it didn’t appeal to me as I don’t like sad movies. We are going through some growing pains with our twin twelve year-olds and we thought it might be a good idea to make them realize WE MIGHT [...]