School is Back… Now What?

School is Back… Now What?

My kids returned to school today. This seems to happen every year and I somehow never really get used to it. It’s like one day they’re here and the next they’re gone… well, for five or six hours at least.

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Sometimes Back-to-School Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be

Sometimes Back-to-School Isn't All It's Cracked Up to Be

For stay-at-home parents, no day on the calendar is more important than the first day of school. Sure, holidays are cool (I’m particularly partial to National Coffee Day), and birthdays are fine and good, but the day my children start back to school is the one I circle in red ink.

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How Many Dishwasher Cycles and Car Line Drop-Offs Make Up a Life?

How Many Dishwasher Cycles and Car Line Drop-Offs Make Up a Life?

We got a new dishwasher recently. That might not sound like a monumental event worth recording for posterity, but…wait, who am I kidding?

If getting a new dishwasher isn’t a life-changing event, I don’t know what is.

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