
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.
- Headphones and Hormones
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- About me
Category: Highchairs and Headaches
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I’m a stay-at-home mom, an occupation which, by the very nature of its poorly chosen name, implies that I merely STAY AT HOME all day. Fellow SAHM’s, is that hilarious or what? I think that in order for a person to be dumb enough to even ask me that question, they must be imagining that…
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My family and I have just returned from our vacation in Ocean City, Maryland. It was a good trip, albeit far too short, but we all had a really great time. I spent the morning cleaning out the car and unpacking our stuff, then uploading all of our vacation pictures and displaying a few favorites…
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I recently came down with some kind of virus or infection that made my tonsils so large I was actually rendered unable to speak normally for a few days. I guess science is the only thing that can truly shut me up. This tonsillitis, as my doctor called it after shining a 100,000 megawatt light…
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It’s official. I am never cleaning my kids’ room again. I’m leaving it like this forever: There is no point—it’s LITERALLY insane to continue doing it all the time. I read somewhere that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. I’ve cleaned that godforsaken room almost…
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Last month, Little M received the “most enthusiastic” award from his pre-k teacher at his preschool graduation ceremony. She said he brought “an energy and special sparkle” to their classroom every day. I was beaming with pride. However, of the words I would use to describe my son’s disposition when leaving for his second week…