Tag: Family
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Midlife Margaritas: Host’s Guide to Keeping Your Drunk Relatives out of The Mistletoe!
POV: You’re attending or hosting the annual dysfunctional family holiday gathering. You need some help on how to survive without murdering drunk uncle Dave. Well, I got you. Read on… If your family is a nice normal traditional family with no one in rehab or jail, this post is not for you. But feel free…
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From Middle School to Midlife: The Ever-Evolving Christmas Questions That Make Us Feel Weird
Remember those hazy days of middle school, when the Christmas story seemed both magical and utterly baffling? You know, the one where a 13-year-old Mary (seriously, 13?!) gets pregnant by…God? And Joseph, bless his soul, just goes along with it? I mean, talk about a trust fall. Then there’s the whole “no room at the…
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A Midlife Christmas: Empty Nest, Let’s Reminisce
Well, here we are again. Another Christmas season, another year older, and another year of our kids living somewhere else. It’s the classic midlife Christmas dilemma: a mix of relief and melancholy. The Amazon Christmas Remember the days of frantic mall trips, fighting crowds, and wrapping paper cuts? Those days are long gone, replaced by…
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Midlife Margarita’s Night Before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, except for my spouse. His snores like a foghorn, a symphony loud, While I tossed and I turned in a hot-flashy cloud. The stockings were hung on the chimney with care, (Though I suspect he’d forgotten, the lazy old bear).…
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Stop Reading the Bullshit: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Kids in Any Stage of Life
I am a big fan of websites like “Grown and Flown” and “Scary Mommy”. They are filled with smart, funny and insightful articles about all the Mommy stages raising kids in all kinds of situations. However, if you search the interwebs and read the article titles on raising kids, teens, college kids and young adults,…
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