Don’t laugh. I have actually made all my kids share a fork before. If only to give them something good to complain about me when they get older. Today I had to feign shock and embarrassment. Thanks to my slightly nutty ways, this happens more than you’d think – usually when I do something I …
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This is Robyn Lawley: She’s stunningly gorgeous (obviously). She’s a model (no surprise there). She’s an advocate for body positivity (yay!). Oh, and she’s “plus sized.” (Wait, what??) It’s been said so many times that it’s nearly become rote in conversations about fashion but I think it bears repeating that plus-sized models are not plus-sized …
Despite living in some disaster-prone places in my life (looking at you Seattle and your SIX* active volcanoes within eyesight), I’ve been fortunate to have avoided major catastrophe. I was in Seattle for their big earthquake in 2002 but other than getting a little nauseated from watching the pavement literally roll in front of me, …
The Andersen Family Halloween 2013: Son #3 (L) is Jack Frost from Rise of the Guardians, Son #1 (C) is an M&M (yes that’s a plastic snow sled hanging around his neck!), Son #2 (R) made his own “Stevie” costume from Minecraft (yep, he’s got a paper bag over his face but he came up …
I’m a mess. I don’t know how else to explain this. I have no way to make it funny or probably even interesting. I’ve been teetering on the brink of the abyss ever since we moved. Scratch that, ever since I knew it was a possibility we were moving. Don’t get me wrong, the move …
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I know you’ve seen it. There’s been a thing going around the past few days. No, not the flu (although it might make you feel sickish) but rather a picture, of a mom and her kids. It was supercute until the mom, a fitness blogger, tried to turn it into “fitspiration” by adding text to …
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“Chinese chicken” will soon have a whole new meaning thanks to a recent move by the USDA. While it has nothing to do with tasty sauces or sesame seeds, the news has everything to do with take-out as the USDA recently gave the green-light to four chicken processing plants in China, allowing chicken grown in the U.S. …
“For not as good results drag behind car through puddles and blow dry on roof rack.” YESSSS! I have actually done this. (Not on purpose but it still ended up with a nice fresh scent!)Disaster was in the cards, er, dryer sheets, from the beginning on that fateful day. Whether it had been too …
Bad news: Jelly Bean has croup. (A virus characterized by a nasty cough that kind of sounds like a seal barking. Which my boys found hilarious. Which made Jelly Bean upset. Which made her cough harder.) Good news: She got a dose of steroids at the pediatrician’s this morning and she’s like a new kid. …
If we’re FB friends you get to read lots of stuff like this! Which will either entertain you or drive you nuts, depending on how you feel about people who FB about their kids. So I’ve been getting a ton of friend requests on Facebook – lest you think I’m super popular (hair flip implied), …
