It is possible to be a mom in your 40s and also fun, you just need an Amazon Prime account, some temporary tattoos, credit card points and a hotel room to stick your family in, …
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Beyoncé
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people make people
One of my favorite thing about people is that they make other people. With the people they love, they make people, who then find people THEY love, and make more people. Soon the house needs …
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she’s glasses
Hi, I don’t know if you recognize me, but today, I’m wearing my glasses. I know. I look VERY different. I’m still me, but profoundly different, because I have glasses on my face. My eyes …
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Can you move
Me to Joe, after a glass of wine on a fairly empty stomach, while watching his tiny body move, which is both tiny but also big: ‘Joe, I grew you in my body, isn’t that …
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take a bow
One of my favorite things about Morrison’s family (specifically my Mother-in-Law) is that they put bows, like actual RIBBON BOWS, on presents. At Christmas time, every present is wrapped and tied up with a piece …
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flying with two kids
Let’s check all our bags except for the bag that will have most of their things, some things will go in a carry-on bag but then some will go in their checked bags, there will …
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I’m a Barbie Middle Aged Girl Woman
41 year old mother of 2 goes to the Barbie movie in Barbie cos-play on a Friday night, has a religious experience, remembers viscerally her Barbie tropical pool that came with a tiny container of …
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there’s an app for that
Joe will say he wants chicken nuggets, or a pear, or a piece of cake, or an entire bagel but with different kinds of nut butter on each side, sliced into triangles, or strawberries with …
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women
Walking home after dropping Joe off at school, I spot another woman (eleven year old girl trapped in woman’s body?) up the street, who looks like someone I know: Me: (like she’s my best friend …
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Mayonnaise Cake
Many years ago, the wife of a mayonnaise salesman (true story) thought, maybe I’ll make a cake with mayonnaise instead of eggs, maybe that would be delicious and my husband would then sell even more …