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I’ve been waiting to write this article for three and a half months.
On Monday evening, we finally brought our Little Lion Man home.
He came with a sea of cardboard boxes, one hundred feet of plastic tubing, several prescriptions, nursing care, portable suction machines, feeding pumps, an air compressor, emergency oxygen, feeding bags, and more syringes [...]

End-of-the-school-year craziness running you down? Only to be slammed with the summer camp/vacation/keep ‘em busy routine? Seems like the modern parent barely has a moment to catch their breath.
Oh, and then there is the reality that pool season is right around the corner.
Baltimore mompreneur Beata Lorinc is coming to the rescue! Beata, Executive District Manager: [...]

Look at me! Look at me! Mommy, watch! Wahhhh!
There are plenty of ways that kids ask for attention and plenty of ways that they should receive it. Attention from parents shows love, affection, feedback, observations on the world, humor and the important message that kids are worth paying attention to.
Because I’m me and I get [...]

I’m one of those people that laughs at funerals. It’s a trait that throws people off because, as a good friend reminded me recently, I’m a ‘bit of a pleaser.’ Give me a tense situation and I crack an inappropriate joke or start swearing like a truck driver. It’s a complete deflection — gives my [...]

Who would want to be a kid these days? If I was given the chance to stay in the present day, but miraculously be 6 again, I would probably pass. For pete’s sake, the SATs are scored out of 2400 now. I don’t even know what that’s about.
As with most generations, I look back on [...]

In the spirit of Earth Week, I thought I’d tackle my number one household nemesis: clutter.
I don’t know how it happens. It just seems to be the life of ‘stuff’ in our house. What starts as an individual small purchase {a book} becomes a dust collector on the kitchen counter {because I never get a [...]

Attention: Scary Mommy is intended for people who have a sense of humor, an appreciation for sarcasm and who wear panties who don’t easily get in a wad… you’ve been warned.
In this beautiful whirlwind of craziness we call motherhood, it’s always refreshing to find others that don’t take themselves too seriously. What do you get [...]

This weekend I was gifted with something precious to so many adults: alone time. I had a few things to do, people to see and things to take care of, but the bulk of my time was my own to do with as I pleased. What a gift…and sometimes, what a curse.
As our lives get [...]