Spring has sprung, and so have your cupboard doors… must be from all that junk you’re holding onto that rightly belongs in the “JOY NOT SPARKED” pile. Looks like it’s time for spring cleaning! How spring cleaning is even a thing is completely beyond me. Cleaning in general never seems to fucking end, so when […]
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Girl Makes Birthday Boxes For Kids In Need, Proving Humanity Is Not Lost
Every once in a while a story comes along that makes you believe that good really does still exist in the world and humanity is, in fact, not lost. Bella Smith, a 9-year-old girl from London, KY, is making a difference in the lives of her classmates, one birthday box at a time. She started […]
My Daughter Told Off Superman
By Heather Sadlemire I tried to ignore the smell of feet and the knowledge that we were, no doubt, surrounded by pathogens hellbent on taking our lives. Instead, I focused on the giggles coming from my 5-year-old and a couple of her best friends as they scurried around the indoor play area: scaling foam mountains, […]
Three Things You Shouldn’t Say to a Mother of Boys
By Karen Lesh of M.O.B. Truths Whether you’re raising boys or girls, parenting is widely known as the most amazing, exhausting, trying, endearing, rewarding journey. For some reason, it’s also a journey that people – random people in the grocery store or the post office – feel the need to comment on. Those people you’ve never met who […]
Florida Woman ‘Infatuated’ with Columbine Found Dead
“THERE IS NO LONGER A THREAT TO THE COMMUNITY,” tweeted the FBI. According to an update on CBS4, Sol Pais, the 18-year-old Florida woman ‘infatuated’ with Columbine, was found dead near the Echo Lake Campground in the Arapaho National Forest. Denver-area public schools were closed while authorities in Colorado conducted a massive manhunt for Pais, […]
Raising Boys: What Every Mom Needs to Know
By Karen Lesh of M.O.B. Truths I just said to my completely nude, just-turned 4yo, “I will play with you only after you put your underwear on.” He replied, “Then I don’t want to play with you.” Let’s just get this out there. The p word. It sounds a little funny, it makes me a […]
We’re at Panera at 4:45, So Stop Giving My Two-Year-Old the Side-Eye
By Julia Pelly of juliapelly.com Before I had kids, when I was a young, fun 20-something wandering the world without mouths to wipe or diapers to change or little feet to stuff into little shoes, I occasionally found myself passing judgment on the parents around me. They were too strict with their kids, or they […]
Paul Rudd Is 50 and This Is What #AgeGoals Look Like
Hey, so if you’ve been feeling young for some reason, allow me to shatter that illusion for you because Paul Rudd, hilariously handsome star of such films as Clueless; I Love You, Man; Ant Man; and Role Models is officially a big boy of 50 years. That’s right, y’all. Paul Rudd is 50, and I may or may not […]