The Mental Load of Motherhood is Heavier than Laundry

This one goes out to the moms.  Yes, just the moms.  I know the dads are out there too, doing their deal and I respect that.  But this? This is for the moms. This is for the full time working moms who leave early in the morning after doing more before 7am than many do …

We went to Target for advent calendars and it turned into a whole thing

We went to Target yesterday to get two chocolate advent calendars.  You know the paper kind with the windows you open up until Christmas and get a terrible chocolate each day? Yeah, those.  Well, they didn’t have any.  Instead, here is what happened. In typical going to Target for one thing fashion, we walked out …

For all this I am thankful – but mostly for pie

For donuts at the library for the third time this week, where there's always a yoga class or story time or just one more book we need to get before we can leave. For another Thanksgiving sober, instead of one like years ago where I fell off the train drunk as my parents arrived to pick …