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Lessons From the Pumpkin Spice Latte Shortage
You guys. It’s safe to go outside again. The Great Pumpkin Spice Latte Shortage of 2012 has ended. Apparently at some point last week, Starbucks declared the “pumpkin emergency” to be over and PSL...
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Thanksgiving Checklist: The Kids’ Table
I’m sure you guys are all up to your eyeballs in grocery store rage and finding the right elastic-waist pants for the upcoming holiday weekend. So I won’t keep you very long. I just want to make sure...
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An Early Holiday Gift {Yes, a Giveaway}
Oh, the holiday season. The traditions. The memories. The sentimentality. And the realization that every family does things a little, uh, differently. In my family, it’s a post-tryptophan,...
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A Very PBK Christmas
Nineteen days until Christmas and, if you’re anything like me, you’re anxiously dusting off your PBK catalog for some swell new ideas on how to complicate the hell out of your remaining holiday prep...
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The 2012 Christmas Music Confessional
It’s time. The Third Annual Fordeville Christmas Music Confessional is open. Forget your shopping lists, your relatives driving you batshit crazy, the overachieving Pinterest Christmas boards and...
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Finding the Funny: Holiday Edition
The holidays are busy, right? Especially when you decide to co-host a party with 16 other people two weeks before Christmas. Yep. Today I’m teaming up with My Life and Kids, Kelley’s Break Room and...
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The Real Reason Kids Write to Santa
My kids are young, so I make a lot of rookie mistakes that many of you with older kids can spot from ten miles away. Like the importance of writing letters to Santa — something we didn’t do this...
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A Farewell Toast to 2012
{Image: The Next Web} What a week. I think I have finally emerged from the tornado named Christmas that put my sanity and my house into a fragile state of disrepair. For those of you who read my last...
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Disney World Planning Fail
Every December 26, I get the Post-Christmas Blues and, to combat them, I begin to plan our family trip to Walt Disney World in March. I followed the same timetable this year and got my flights/hotel...
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A Valentine’s Day Fling
Ah, Valentine’s Day is coming. I remember when I used to anticipate this day of love and romance with visions of flowers and candy in my head. I would hope for a beautifully written sentiment in a...
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Spring Break: Then & Now
So, it has been a while since I wrote a new post and here’s the simple reason: Spring Break sucked the life out of me. Did I travel? No. Did I take on some huge endeavor? Nope. I was home, with my two...
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The Pumpkinization of America
A few days ago, I posted a little tidbit on Facebook that I feared might get me fired from the Internet. Or from living in America: I ducked my head and waited for the backlash. I know that PSL Nation...
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Santa, Bring Me Some Sister Wives
It’s time to make my annual holiday season promise to myself. The one that I break every year: I will not let the holidays stress me out. I will enjoy them, damn it. Riiiight. But despite my past...
View Article2013, I Think I Loved You
Everyone’s telling me that they can’t believe this year is over. I disagree. I can totally believe it. I think that going without a full night of sleep for 50% of the year really extended my 2013...
View ArticleEvening News: Winter Break Edition
Thank you for joining this special edition of the evening news. Tonight we take a look back at Winter Break 2013/14 through the eyes of one family. “I loved the break! It lasted so, so, soooo long! My...
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Seven
Seven snuck up on me. Even though I know what follows six. Even though he had a four-month countdown going. Even though I bought the gifts and made the cakes. Still. Seven snuck up on me in a lot of...
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It’s October, For the Win
I usually don’t realize how much I’m enjoying something until it’s just about over. {Note: Except for wine or chocolate. I’m pretty much enamored from the beginning.} But yesterday I came to a strange...
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Tidings of Discomfort (and Joy)
Turns out there’s a fine line between thriving and cracking under pressure. I truly love Christmas. I do. But I am willing to admit, with 15 days to go, that I maaaaaay have taken on a tad more than I...
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Lessons Learned Over Winter Break
Greetings from the ongoing wreckage of Hurricane Christmas! If all goes according to schedule, I should have all remnants of this holiday cleaned up just in time for July 4th. I used to think that...
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A Guide to Luxury Holiday Seating: Teen Edition
So, you might think that my lack of recent blogging means I have been immersed in some highly unproductive habits. Like perhaps celebrating the long overdue demise of pumpkin-everything season as we...
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