Coffee+Crumbs: If I Could Cinch Up Summer
Back in my eighties childhood in northeastern Ohio, my summer consisted of bike rides to our neighborhood pool with my …
Parenting
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: Our Family Ghost
This morning I flushed another dump that wasn’t mine. I didn’t bother asking whose it was, because all three of …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: A Stink Bug Tried to Mate with Me
I live in Georgia, where the spiders and bugs are the size of dinosaurs. Since we don’t have enough freezing …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: The Most Isolating Thing I’ve Ever Experienced
I plod up the steps and open the door into the waiting room of the therapist’s office, coaxing my child …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: Moms Should Get a Pass for Public Peeing
Once there was a young mom. Well, young-ish. Okay, middle-ish mom with small children. Medium children. Okay, once there was …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: I See You, Teenage Daughter
Dropping the kids off for camp each year is a big event requiring weeks of preparation on my part to …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: Restaurant People
It’s summer and writing is hard. The space around me has shrunk to next to nothing with the kids home, …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: The Coconuts Stayed On
You know those friends who keep life interesting? Everyone has them. Your fun friends, the ones with whom anything can …
Parenting, Podcast
Lighten Up #73: Bronwyn Lea
Today I’m talking with Bronwyn Lea, blogger, lawyer, immigrant, and mom. She loves puns, and we get punny, and then …
Parenting
On the MOPS Blog: “Gird Your Loins”
“I have seeds in my balls? How do they come out? Surgery? IS IT WITH A NEEDLE?!” The sex talk …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: You Might Think I’m a Serial Killer
I hope you don’t find the box in my closet. I hope no one finds it because if they do, …
Parenting, Relationships
Coffee+Crumbs: Getting Up the Energy for a Fancy Date Night
(This photo is *not* from a fancy date night, but it is from our most recent date night, our annual …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: Yesterday My Kids Got Along and I Almost Dropped Dead from Shock
Do your kids ever fight? Of course not, right? Your kids are perfect. You would never, for instance, awaken to …
Faith, Parenting
Jesus Blew Up Mary’s Birth Plan
Prepare the way for the Lord. – Isaiah 40:3 “Call your husband and tell him you’re having the baby today,” said …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: Just Figure Out About Santa Already
My uncle pointed up at the twinkling lights in the dark Kentucky night sky and said, “There he goes back …
Parenting
The Mudroom: When Other People Think Your Kids Are Apples
The Mudroom asked me to write about parenting kids with special needs and as I approached the article, I kept thinking …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: That Thing Where I Have a Teenager Now
“My friend uses a credit card to do cat eyes with her eyeliner,” she tells me as she’s getting ready …
Parenting, Relationships
The Problem Is Ours
So many times now I’ve sat in front of my little personal blog and tried to organize thoughts about current …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: Family “Vacation”
My husband and I recently took our three kids on a family “vacation” to Washington, D.C., where our son was …
Parenting
This Summer Will Be Different
My kids are coming home from school for the whole summer in five hours and you can see the whites …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: Why I’m Excited for Summer Break
I smash the alarm off at 6 a.m., pull a hoodie over my unfettered boobs, and knock on three doors. …
Parenting
Dear Teachers, We Appreciate You
Oh how I love thee; let me count the ways. When I think about the teachers in my kids’ lives, …
Geeky, Parenting
Mother’s Day Gifts for the Mom Who Breaks the Mold
Well, it must be that time of year again when all the retailers turn their collective gaze to mothers. Over …
Parenting
Coffee+Crumbs: Is Everyone Else’s House Blowing Up at 5pm?
They call it the witching hour. Well I’d like to expelliarmus the power right out of 5 p.m. and disarm …