Imagine you’re at a beautiful gourmet food store. As you wheel your cart past glistening grapes and baskets of freshly baked ciabatta, you come across a table with samples of 24 different kinds of artisanal jam. Every flavor you can imagine is there: strawberry, apricot, and some you’ve never even heard of. You try a…
I’ve always been a failure at coupons. No matter what system I’ve tried, I’ve never been able to do more than save the occasional 50 cents on a bottle of ranch dressing. But last year, my grocery store created a coupon app. Now, while I’m standing in line, I just pull out my phone, tap…
I always feel pulled in two different directions in February. One on hand, the Fun Mom in me wants to live large. She wants to shake up the daily routine, toss out the boring old schoolbooks, and spend February setting the kids’ enthusiasm afire with fascinating hands-on projects from Pinterest. But on the other hand, the Responsible Mom in…
Experienced parents know that what children say and what children mean aren’t always quite the same. Child: “Yes, Mom, I wiped the table.” Translation: “Yes, I took a dishcloth and flicked the biggest crumbs onto the floor.” Child: “No, I didn’t hit my brother.” Translation: “Well, I was mad that he knocked over my block castle….and I may have…
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