Coffee – then adulting.

Or wine. Wine then adulting.

Just a mom to a know-it-all teen and an 8-year-old who rules the roost. A wife, a daughter, and a twin sister. Millennial who juggles a full-time job with mental sanity.

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  • Back to Germs

    What a week it’s been. I’ve been at the pharmacy more than my kids have been in school. Between retrieving prescriptions, buying Covid tests, and various other medicines for allergies and cold symptoms, you could say the local Walgreen’s knows me well. Unfortunately, my daughter contracted Covid right when she turned 13. Not the best…

  • Embracing the End of Summer: A Realistic Approach

    It’s that time of year again that I dread while also welcome. While it’s sad to see summer go, it’s also comforting to get back to routines. I look back on summer and think of the fun things we did as a family. I also regret some things we didn’t get to do. Every year…

  • The death of the ‘playroom.’

    I should have been prepared for it. But I didn’t realize how the cleaning and reorganizing of the playroom would hit so hard. I wanted to move my office there. Unfortunately, the size of my desk made it impossible. But I still took the opportunity to clean up foam gun darts and pick off dried…

  • The things kids say.

    It’s 10:30 p.m. My son peers out of his room (where he should be asleep) and asks, “Mom, have you ever made a mistake in life?” I think I’m about to have another existential conversation with a very curious 7-year-old. I mean, this is the same kid who asked me if I liked “being a…

  • A Journey Back to Writing

    If you know me, you probably know that I’m generally a pretty private person. There are many reasons for starting this but here are a few. The truth is I started this blog entry above in April of 2019. It’s now 2025. In other words, that was before a new job, before the world shut…