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My Embarrassing Husband (and Truths about Marriage)
Here’s a truth about marriage that no one ever tells you: the most difficult part about marriage isn’t compromise. The most difficult part is learning to bite your tongue and not make fun of your...
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Fruitcakes and nutcases
The cryptic recipe. A little of this, a little of that, at 250 or 300 degrees. It has a terrible reputation and a whopping 450 calories per slice. It’s often called a brick or a doorstop. My dear...
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Merry Christmas from The Mommyhood
Craig Cunningham/Daily Mail May your days be merry and bright, moms! Wishing you peace and happiness this Christmas week.
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Bite the bullet
Phasing out the toaster as I aim for more fruit and less grain. In the fall, I wrote to our editor and fellow Mommyhood blogger, Lauren McGill, and told her that I wasn’t sure if I should continue...
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The Art of Acceptance
As I write this by pecking the keyboard with my left hand, a little booklet titled Acceptance Therapy sits on the table next to me. I bought it after the death of someone I loved, and it is full of...
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The space between
As the clock struck midnight and 2014 took its first breaths, I began processing what was scheduled to happen this year. I looked down at my youngest daughter, sprawled out on my lap like a Golden...
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The Day I Ate Dog Food
When I was four years old, my brother Sean and his friend Gusty convinced me to eat dog food. The food didn’t look anything like the plain Purina Dog Chow my family fed our mutt, Charlie Brown. Charlie...
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Zit Happens
There are collections of expressions that promise hardships for those lucky few who never seem to suffer. I suppose we should feel guilty for hoping the bottom drops out of their seemingly eternal...
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Tapped Out
A bubble bath at the kitchen sink. It’s been a long time since I’ve tested the temperature of a bottle on my wrist. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to feed a precious newborn daughter. It was to wash that...
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A Messy Parenting Theory
On the day I became a mom, I started avoiding books and magazine articles about parenting. When a television host announces an upcoming segment about parenting, I always change the channel or turn off...
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