
Headphones & Hormones
They've outgrown the highchairs, they can't hear a word you say, and you don't know whose hormones are worse, yours or theirs. Here's my take on parenting teens as a perimenopausal single mom in 2025.
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Category: Highchairs and Headaches
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Before I was ever responsible for the health and nutrition of another person, my diet consisted mostly of pop tarts and alcohol. My most impressive feat in the kitchen was making these little biscuit-type thingies that my family lovingly referred to as “Jeannine’s Balls.” They consisted of unmeasured ratios of water and Bisquick pancake mix,…
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Today we’re making Highchairs & Headaches history with my very first guest blog post. How freaking big time am I, having guest bloggers and stuff?? And it’s an awesome post from a really talented writer, too! Fellow mommy and humor blogger Marcia Rosenberg is sharing her no-fail secrets for coping with the craziness of baby’s…
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I have some “minor” anxiety issues, which may be apparent from my writing. Some of you might have even noticed my affinity for Xanax, which I mention from time to time because it’s kind of awesome. Someday I’ll write all about the time my anxiety caused me to have a real life nervous breakdown, and…
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I’m not rich. Far from it. I’m not like running to the bank to file for bankruptcy or taking up residence in a station wagon or anything like that, but we have to meet up with a lot of ends around here or whatever it is they say about people who are broke. I’ll put…
