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Last weekend we spent a rainy Father’s Day at Fenway Park in Boston. Rob and I went to school in Boston and lived there for 10 years before moving to the outskirts and then finally relocating to Maine. I am pretty sure Boston will be “my town” until I am old and gray, despite [...]

My kids and I just got back from the first trip of the summer.  Up at Grandma’s, there’s a store that we regularly visit that has the most unique and weird stuff, that it’s always like finding treasure- stuff we don’t strictly need but covet with all our hearts.  And sometimes, we even splurge and [...]

When my older son (OS) was a year old, my husband and I decided he would have a home party. He was only one after all. We invited our family and friends and had a huge cookout. It was a lot of fun, but really stressful as well.
In addition to doing the [...]

I’m just back from an amazing VIP bloggers trip to Disney World, Florida. Here are the top tips for parents I picked up during the trip, tips that I wanted to share with all of you. Feel free to add your own in the comments, ’cause you can never have too many tips [...]

The other day, I forced my children, aged 13 and 17, to go to a museum. I want to feel guilty for this, and yet I don’t. I mean, what am i supposed to do? They don’t have field trips in school anymore, and if school doesn’t make a big deal out of museums, what [...]

Kevin Carroll has written a couple of books, my favorite of which is “Rules of the Red Rubber Ball”. He talks about how he grew up, what we might think of as “at risk” outside of Philadelphia. He talks about how the playground saved his life and it’s where he discovered something [...]

I remember when I first became a mother. I considered a day where I had showered and thrown in a load of laundry while taking care of my newborn to be a success. As time went on, things got easier, but I was still really busy. I remember having a sneaking suspicion [...]

I’ve been working out early in the morning for over a year now. When I actually stop and think about it, it still amazes me. I have never been a morning person. When the night begins to fall, my energy begins to bubble up and I get a second wind. However, [...]

Two and a half years ago, when GNMParents was just an infant, we ran a collaborative post called You Know You’re a Mom when… Lots of moms contributed and the comments that came in were fantastic.
That post still garners a lot of hits through Google. I went back and re-read it and it [...]

For this week’s column, I am going to cheat just a little bit. See, when I accepted the challenge to write stuff for this wonderful site, I hoped to bring a working Mom’s perspective with each and every post. I figured that that was the reason for my being at this particular table.
I [...]