I’m attending a benefit for the American Red Cross, Help Japan Bloom Again, which is being sponsored by The Real Charitable Housewives of Delaware tomorrow. I’ve got a fabulous new dress from Blue Velvet Vintage and am donating a gift basket (tub actually) custom made from Georgia Custom Gift Baskets for the benefit’s silent auction […]
When you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go
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A few years ago, when Joey was potty training, the child would not use a public toilet…ever. He wouldn’t pee or poop at school, while out shopping, traveling, and once on the way to the beach he cried for forty minutes because he had to go so bad and was holding it until we reached […]
A letter from the SUV that God forgot
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To Whom It May Concern: I am writing this letter somewhere in the mountains of northern Maryland or maybe south western Pennsylvania. Geographically speaking there is little to no visible difference as far as the landscape is concerned. I am accompanied on this trip by my husband of eight years and my three children who […]
Challenged
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This has been one of those weeks where I’m feeling like I’m being tested daily (and not just as a parent). There’s been no shortage of bloggable material, but to be perfectly honest, I just haven’t felt like sitting down and writing about it. Aside from this week being incredible busy with a ton […]
Move over Muffin Top, here comes Leopard Toe
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In the event any of you still thought I was even a little bit normal, here’s the video proof I’m not. Yesterday, I told you how my muffin top was mentioned in the LA Times (no, really it was). Well, move over muffin top, here comes leopard toe. What’s leopard toe? You’ll see…I know I’m […]
You may recognize me from my famous “Muffin Top”
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My brushes with Stardom started at a young age. I was only in first grade when I fashioned an award winning pine cone turkey for a school contest at Thanksgiving. I used pine cones, feathers, glitters and glue. My bird and I were later featured on the local PBS evening news and seen by dozens […]
What came first? The pig or the hotdog?
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I roasted a whole chicken with all the fixings, and the kids and I sat down to dinner. I hadn’t finished half of my food before Joey asked for seconds, and specifically for another piece of chicken with “the skin on it too.” Jake immediately echoed his brother’s request although he has never eaten the […]
