My oldest and I made the always terrible mistake of killing time by wandering the halls of a Target. Options were limited, and we needed some cleaning supplies. Instead of being responsible, grabbing what we needed and rushing out of there like we were fleeing our certain death, we decided to ‘just look around.’ We avoided […]
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All three of my kids are performers. My youngest longs for the bright lights of Broadway, my middle child plays drums and sings in a rock band, and my oldest dances. I love nothing more than to watch them shine on stage. We spend our nights shuffling them to and from practice and listening to
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Much like snow days, dance competitions have a certain flow to them. Since, it’s a dance competition weekend for us so I thought I’d share, and commiserate, with all of you how it usually goes. The Week Before Find out when you’ll actually be dancing. Up until this point, you’ve had the whole three days
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Last weekend marked the beginning of the dreaded dance season. An action packed 2-3 months of glitter, feathers, tights, and more butt glue (I swear to God that’s real) than a girl could ever possibly need or presumably want. That butt glue is sticky as hell and sometimes you have to rip the costume back
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It is 6:55 am. Your alarm rings and as you swipe away the inexplicable multitude of notifications that arrived overnight, you notice a text from the school district. There’s a 2-hour delay. Not so bad, you think, stopping your alarm and getting to sleep in a whole extra 30 minutes before work. 7:45 am. Did
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The last few weeks have been nothing short of some terrible Shakespearean tragedy or, depending on the readers’ viewpoint, perhaps comedy because only in a story would so much insanity happen back to back. I don’t even know if I believe it. Let me take you back to the more innocent time of 2 weeks
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I am long past the days of school dances and lunch table politics. Or so I thought. This year, for the first time, I will have a high schooler. How the actual hell did that happen? Without warning, she reminded me that she needed me to pick up my sister’s old homecoming dresses so she
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We’ve had a cold going around the family. Nothing particularly serious, but after my middle child R couldn’t get rid of the cough, I took him in to the doctor. Pneumonia. Freaking Pneumonia. He didn’t even seem particularly ill. I had him stay home from school the next day and he spent the afternoon acting
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Walking through Target, buying only the necessities I assure you, I noticed that the store is fully in back-to-school mode. The entire seasonal section is full of notebooks, pens, and matching backpack and lunchbox sets. Around the main store, you see the signs that school is approaching too. There are teacher mugs and lots of
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