Joe’s namesake, my grandpa Joe, ate a bowl of Neapolitan ice cream basically every night of his life, up until his death. Even in the throes of Alzheimer’s he knew he needed his ice cream, …
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Johnny
Earlier this week, The Notebook musical lost a family member: John Beasley, our OG Older Noah. He took what Ingrid and I created above and beyond our expectations, at 79 years old his performance was …
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almond butter everywhere
I used to go to parties, or Party? and now I scrub almond butter off of plates that have already been through the dishwasher. I went to Prague once and bought a necklace on Charles …
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Scream Sometimes
For parents who don’t want to straight up spank their children, but ALSO don’t support full gentle parenting because telling a screaming toddler who’s peeing on your sweater that you ‘understand what they’re going through’ …
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Everything Salad
Putting everything seasoning on a salad is kind of like having a Bagel, just like sticking your foot in a mixing bowl of water is like swimming in the ocean and Remembering chocolate is like …
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dear blueberry on the floor
Dear blueberry on the kitchen floor: it’s not that I don’t see you, it’s that I Can’t. It’s not that I don’t know I should bend down and pick you up, it’s that I won’t. …
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no one is coming
Facing down another long weekend with a baby and a sick toddler, and then another long weekend after that, there’s not only the worry over the toddler and the baby, because if you’re worrying about …
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Frosting
I dreamt I was being frosted into the middle of a German Chocolate Cake, my body was a series of coconut flakes in a wave pool, and the long flat knife was the wave. I …
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Mother’s Day
I saw a tweet, Meme? Post? The other day that made me Lol. ‘Traumatic experience taking too long to turn into art.’ Personally I try to be VERY efficient about transforming mine. I turned our …
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Why to marry my husband
There’s a lot of reasons why marrying Morrison was the best and most logical thing I’ve ever done, but the most recent one: this toilet training sticker chart that he custom made for Joe (NOTE: …