Happy battling-your-boomer-relatives-over-diet-culture weekend to all who celebrate.

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While his twin sister caught a 24-inch bass, my 10yo son caught some… bait 🤣❤️

With Girl Fieri's fruit salad and Meg St-Esprit 's bow tie pasta with butter, a new dawn of potlucks where mothers do not have to make an entire second meal when they get home can begin

Packing my kids four changes of clothes for camping this weekend, knowing full well they will wear the same grubby outfit or a swimsuit for three days straight.

Bridgeton was the boost the violin industry needed.

the realest symbol of wealth when i was a middle schooler was seeing these one of these bad boys on the bathroom countertop

My student loans feel like Goldilocks. Too big for this cancellation, too small for that one.

Me: “You’re having a really great hair day!

5: “Not really. There was a dead bug in it earlier.”

I don’t know when to ever be alone now that my bedtime is earlier than my kids’ 😭😭

Me: “Look, I know you think your dad and I are super lame because we keep a close eye on you and won’t let you have social media and stuff but…”

10: “Pause, mom. Correct.”

“About what?”

“Being super lame.”

Give me a toddler temper tantrum any day 🙃

My husband just heard me loudly groan in pain from around the corner. “Wait,” he said, “I’ll carry that!”

He assumed I was lugging something heavy, given my angst.

Dear reader, I had merely bent over to pick up a sock off of the floor.

This is 40.

Hey friends! I've been interviewing educators about the four-day school week that some schools are switching to. I am curious if any of your schools have done this? Would love to chat a bit about it!

Listening to everyone call Penelope Bridgeton fat is re-traumatizing like when they used to call Natalie Maines or Mia Tyler fat when I was a teen and would’ve killed to be their size 🙃

I’m at the playground listening to a man mansplain his wife about burning calories and why she isn’t losing weight and I’m about to tell her she’s the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen, so get ready.

Not only is my 10yo the best big sister to our 5yo, she’s the de facto big sis for all her friends, too 🥹

When everyone is battling — with siblings, peers, parents — just take them in the woods. Not a battle for hours ❤️❤️ (Except over if we should get Kool Kones or Bruster’s after🍦

It’s amazing that for most of my life I never thought about the Chiefs and now I can’t seem to get away from them.

I wish the Gmail automatically-generated replies included more exclamation points so that they look like I actually typed them.

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