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Take Your Best Shot

I’m stating right up front I hate vaccinations. I’m not an anti-vaxxer, I’m just more afraid of getting a tetanus shot than dying a horribly painful death.

At what point does the preparation of Thanksgiving dinner get handed over to the next generation? Is there a statute explaining the process of turning the oven mitts over to the daughters/sons so they can begin their own traditions? I grew up thinking it was a law for grandmothers to make the Thanksgiving feast, withContinue reading “Passing the T-Day Torch”

You Know You’re a Mother If . . .

Mother’s are a special breed. Usually a cross between a Pomeranian and a Black Lab, they are either yapping constantly, or smothering you with love. Once you’re a mom, you do things you never imagined, because kids numb your brain to any kind of higher-thought functions. (Your brain on kids.) About the time your 2-year-oldContinue reading “You Know You’re a Mother If . . .”

Homemade Baked Goods = Abuse

My mom spent my childhood punishing me and my siblings. Store-bought cookies and Wonder Bread were treats from the Gods, but my mom did all of our baking. So instead of Oreos or Chips Ahoy cookies, we had to endure homemade chocolate chip cookies, snickerdoodles and gingersnaps. We were SO picked on. And we letContinue reading “Homemade Baked Goods = Abuse”

Happy Mother’s Day

It’s been five months since cancer took my mom. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of her and thank her for the opportunity I had to be her daughter. My mom could be. . . how do I put it. . .stubborn. But she taught me how to love being a mom, andContinue reading “Happy Mother’s Day”