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Two years ago, my family was the definition of overwhelmed. We weren’t seeing the kids enough and we were drained from work. We rearranged what we could to make things better but the improvements were slight. During that time, one album was
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I like these writers so hard. All Work and No Play Makes Mommy Go Something Something Another Clean Slate Carisa Miller Can I Get Another Bottle of Whine The Deliberate Mom Finding Ninee Fourtuitous House TalkN I Am The Milk
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Ten centuries ago (internet time), I reviewed The Mother of All Meltdowns, an anthology about the point at which normally rational, loving, and sane mothers cracked under kid-induced pressure. Now, the women who created that book have launched a website
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When my mom remarried and blended four kids together and a new husband, she bought an old, two story house with a sizable attic that would come to hold all six of our dusty pasts. Now, my stepfather is the
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Yesterday was Ash Wednesday and we went to the evening service. It was my first Ash Wednesday service because going to church is a very new thing for us, especially me. I’m so new that the idea of talking about
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