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Imagine this: a toddler melts down in the middle of a grocery aisle. The toddler’s mother is taking deep breaths, staying as calm as she can, wrestling her screaming child back into the cart while silently praying that no one will notice.
But of course someone does notice, and it’s…
Do you know what to say or how to act when you see a child in the wild behaving like… well, a wild child? Because I sure don’t.
I wrote a few weeks ago about what it is like for me to shop at Aldi with my one-year-old in tow…
Until I read Edgar Allan Poe’s extremely self-aware and blow-by-blow account of how he wrote his famous poem “The Raven,” I assumed that it must have been one of those poetic “flights of fancy” that flashed upon him like a brilliant inspiration from a heavenly and somewhat spooky Muse.
(I…
We have a limited costuming budget and could only buy enough fabric to make clothing in size 0.
We believe in representation for everyone, and we believe that the category of “significantly over-represented” is criminally underrepresented in media.
This is not a comedy, and therefore we cannot employ anyone we…
I’m a regular Aldi shopper, cruising the aisles with my son almost every week now that I’m an independent adult who has her act together, or at least some semblance of such a thing. But my history with Aldi goes back a lot further — all the way to my…
“But I don’t know what the words are. I don’t know what to say.”
“Say you were happy once. Say there was laughter. Say what is true.”
~Jo March and Robert March, Little Women (written by Heidi Thomas)
Little Women was a benchmark of my adolescence, as it has been…
I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that Andy enjoys eating directly off the floor, considering that one of the first hobbies he took up when he became mobile was passionately giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to the air conditioning vents. …
We got a Costco membership when Andy was three months old in the hope of saving money on diapers. He is now twelve months old, and we have saved approximately $433 million dollars on baby underwear alone, so I think the cost of the shiny card is worth it. I…
My son’s name isn’t Andy. But I refer to him by this alias when I write about him, because I want to respect his privacy, and because I fear it might embarrass him if the whole world found out I’d cursed him with the name Fitzwilliam.
(Kidding. I don’t love…
