My friend Joe wrote a must-read post about what you can’t control once you become a parent. This week fate dealt my family a curveball I’m having trouble figuring out how to process. No one is in mortal danger. I should…
Long Term Family Travel is Not all Sunshine and Rainbows
True Deal Mommy Confession: I threw the Deal Kids’ soccer ball into a ravine. To be fair they were warned. Still, it’s not my finest parenting moment. But it did get me thinking. Just like nobody shows their B side…
Santa Monica
Today’s my birthday. I’m not pandering (I get enough well-wishes on Facebook) but it makes for a happy coincidence. Everclear, who does my favorite song, is performing tonight at a local festival. I’m so dating myself as a Gen Xer…
The “I Hate Year in Review Posts” Post: 18 Things I Learned in 2016
Happy New Year!Bloggers navel gaze by nature-heck I’m documenting our home remodel week by week. But there’s something super-indulgent about year in review posts that gets under my skin. Do you really care which post from 2016 was the most popular…