Motherwise Cracks

Signs you are a sentimental slob manifest themselves when your kids are young but become a hindrance to a neat and organized home by the time they are college-aged. Be on the lookout for the following signs you are a sentimental slob: You keep wrappers from gifts (even plastic packaging). The area under your bed [...]

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Isn’t it funny that people will ask how you accomplished something and then totally blow off the answer? I have decided to try a new tactic. The next time someone poses a parenting advice question to me I will ask them how they think I did it. My theory is that is what they want [...]

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A flood of memories washed over me last night as I read “Checking Up on Daddy” by Adam J. Roth. It’s a book that I think is a celebration of so many things; family ritual, shared parenthood responsibilities, the sing-song way we speak to our little ones. I could almost hear myself saying the phrases [...]

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For some reason I double scheduled myself on Parents Weekend at college and now my husband will be off on his own.  I am going to the Adirondacks with some friends, which is nice, but why in the world when I have a ton of boring weekends, does this particular one happen to be Parents [...]

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Dear Silly Woman: You are an adult so I am very surprised to have to be writing you this, but as a mom with years of experience in dressing those who may need assistance (while mine were children at the time), I am compelled to explain some basics to you. First, if you have a [...]

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Well the kids thought that hell has frozen over. We are getting cable but only the broadcast tier. What’s that? You have never heard of that? That is because cable companies don’t want you to know that you can pay about $11 a month for excellent reception (no converter box) and get your regular broadcast [...]

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All quiet on the Home Front as my son is back to college. He left enough to remember him by on the floor of his bedroom. So I wanted to know all about how he was doing so I texted him and asked. His reply? “Good” Filled with that complete and exhaustive description of his [...]

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My living room is now half full of my son’s stuff for his return to college. Monday it will once again be unnaturally quiet around here and the dog will probably develop a sore spot from me petting her too much as I adjust to the quiet. About as soon as I get used to [...]

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