Let’s go back to our broken family and how it works with Alex and his wife. One of the other things that I think is so clutch in our co-parenting dynamics is an unwritten surrender to the idea that we each have our own role, and there’s no guilt in sub-consciously delegating off responsibilities to other parents so long as you’re pulling your weight in your own role. It actually makes parenting with another couple…
In hind sight, I suppose it may have been a bad idea, but how was I supposed to know that Jonah’s friends would misinterpret what I was motioning over towards him during his tennis match as something WILDLY inappropriate? So, he’s sitting on the bench during his tennis match at Nobles yesterday afternoon when, all of a sudden, a ball comes flying straight for him and nails him in the face. He was fine, so…
What’s funny is that despite me having gone to graduate school for a masters in Accounting and Business, I am still one of those people who knows she is getting totally played by retail companies that let you know how much you saved so that you can rationalize making typically irrational purchases. Who am I kidding, though? It’s not even the times like when Nordstrom Rack will tell you you saved something like $855 on…
Look, I am trying. Ok? It’s just that there’s no room on the cool girls bus for me because high waisted leggings just (a) make my torso look the same length as my 4 year old’s, and (b) give me the worst camel toe. And, to confirm for me that I just need to stop trying, Ben has made it loud and clear that I don’t look good in them. He also isn’t a huge…
GREAT NEWS! I think I FINALLY figured out how to set the comments section on my blog to filter out spam and let only real people through. Which MEANS WE GET TO CHAT…like back and forth! Well, I think. The timing is actually perfect since I just put my Nutrition Challenge out there from the last post. So, I’ll repeat the guidelines and if you’re in, comment on this post so I can start holding…
This Monday, we started a nutrition challenge at CFNE that I am so fired up about that I want to write about it here to see if I can get any cyber buddies to jump on board with until May 24th. Every class is doing their own thing, but here is what I’m having my class get on board with. Sleep: a minimum of 7-8 hours every night. Nutrition: make 1 major change + 3…
Just about every morning, I need to remind Bode…as he completely tortures and teases Harley Love over breakfast…about how he should be behaving and treating people. Over the almost 5 years that Harley Love has been around and, notironically, Bode has been completely torturing and teasing her, we’ve arrived at a super simple motto that he knows like the back of his hand: “Behave in a way that makes people happy, not sad.” I love that…
When the topic of writing a book comes up, the hands down, number one request I get from people is to write about how we make our relationship with my ex-husband’s family work so well. Half of me thinks that we just got lucky with Alex and his wife, Liza. They’re just both incredibly awesome people. They’re family values seem to be directly in line with ours: family first, hard-working, humble, hungry, & happy. They…
