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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Birthdays. They used to be so awesome. When you were a kid, you got new toys and games. When you were a teenager you got new clothes and maybe a new cell phone. When you were in your twenties you got free shots at the bar. But in your thirties (and beyond), all you really…
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I was saddened to learn of the untimely passing of a neighbor’s son today. I’ll call him J. J was only 38 years old. I didn’t know J very well. Until I read his obituary just now, I didn’t even know I’d been calling him by his nickname all this time. Our exchanges were mostly…
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Today, we pay homage to mom’s best friend: The Baby Wipe. The Baby Wipe is, in my humble opinion, one of the greatest inventions in the history of the world (sorry, lighbulb, get over it). Before I had kids I sadly did not know the sheer convenience of having a stack of these damp little…
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Remember when a friend would call up and ask you to go to the beach, and you’d put on your bikini (wait, what’s a bikini?), grab a towel and a pair of sunglasses and be on your way? Remember when you could lie in the warm summer sun, work on your tan, read a good…
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I recently saw this meme (or whatever those crazy kids are calling it these days) on Facebook: A year or so ago, I would have thought this statistic was majorly exaggerated. Do people even say 437 WORDS a day? But one year ago, Little M was not yet four years old and I could still…
