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Enjoying Summer Time Can Be Easy….Sort Of

June 22, 2015 By Christine 5 Comments

Enjoying Summer Time Can Be Easy….Sort Of

Summer is here. We are a week into summer vacation and already, I’ve heard the words “I’m bored” and “There’s nothing to doooooooo” and, my personal favorite, “There’s nothing gooooood to eat in the pantry”. Yep. Summer with kids is AWESOME.  And HARD. It’s hard to keep them busy, it’s hard to find time to […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough, Parenting My Way, The Keeper On Today!, Uncategorized Tagged With: summer fun, surviving summer

Tales of A Fifth Grade Nothing

June 15, 2015 By Christine 8 Comments

Tales of A Fifth Grade Nothing

While on a recent trip to the beach,  I observed Fruit Loop #2 happily playing with her best friend.  They spent an entire day building sand castles, jumping waves and doing all the things you do with your bestie when you are nine years old.  They told secrets, they giggled, they wore their bathing suits […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough, People Who Suck Tagged With: incredible hulk, mean girls

The Day I Met Tom Brokaw. Sort of.

June 3, 2015 By Christine 4 Comments

The Day I Met Tom Brokaw.  Sort of.

When I was eight years old, my dad asked me if I wanted to skip school for the day and tag along on some of his business calls in New York City.  My eight year old ears could barely believe what they were hearing:  I’d always heard about the mysterious New York City and I couldn’t […]

Filed Under: Losing My Dad, The Keeper Is A Guest!, The Keeper News Tagged With: pinch me, Today Show, Tom Brokaw

Home Sweet Home

May 18, 2015 By Christine 4 Comments

Home Sweet Home

Hubby and I, on the general, don’t argue much. Strike that. We argue all the time. We have tiffs, we have eye rolling, we have snippy moments where I call him a jackass and he gets annoyed. Occasionally, there’s even a door slam. But, for the most part, we don’t argue so vociferously that one […]

Filed Under: Behind Closed Doors, Parenting Is Hard Enough Tagged With: arguments, new house, sleep deprivation

This Is Nursing

May 6, 2015 By Christine 30 Comments

This Is Nursing

In September 1995, I sat on my parents’ bed and cried.  Hard. I begged them to let me come home from college, to let me quit my nursing courses.   I cried because the schedule was rigorous, the professors demanded excellence that I feared I didn’t have and because I had to take Physics.  Physics, […]

Filed Under: The Keeper Is A Nurse Tagged With: nurses' week, nursing, RN

Listen To The Keeper

May 1, 2015 By Christine Leave a Comment

Listen To The Keeper

Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve wanted to be on stage. In fact, when I starred in the critically acclaimed play “The Little White Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings” at the age of six, a star was born.  As I hopped around my elementary school stage, my parents tell me they realized they […]

Filed Under: Listen To Your Mother, The Keeper Is A Guest!, The Keeper News Tagged With: listen to your mother, microphones, ppd

Just Sleep, Dammit!

April 7, 2015 By Christine 7 Comments

Just Sleep, Dammit!

There are few things that will drive a new mother over the edge like sleep deprivation. The days where you wake up exhausted, nauseous and convinced you will never sleep again in the history of ever drive yoga pants clad moms all across this nation to the brink of insanity. Everyone always seems to have […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough, Parenting My Way Tagged With: cry it out, sleep deprivation

Thanks for the Mammories

April 3, 2015 By Christine 6 Comments

Thanks for the Mammories

I am a graduate of the University of “My Boobs Fed A Human” and hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Breast Feeding.  In order to graduate, I had to enroll in classes such as “Breast Pump 101” and “Your Breast and You:  How Not To Get Eaten Alive By A Small Human”.  There were all nighters […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough, Parenting My Way Tagged With: hell, mastitis

I STILL Just Want To Pee Alone

March 26, 2015 By Christine 3 Comments

I STILL Just Want To Pee Alone

Becoming a mother is mind blowing. Or, at least for ME it was. There were so many things I did not see coming:  the inability to run quickly into a convenience store for coffee ever again, the number of Pinterest pins I had to acquire to keep up with the uber crafty, overachieving mom types […]

Filed Under: I STILL Want To Pee Alone, The Keeper News Tagged With: I'm in a book!, pee alone

Operation: Surprise A Solider

March 20, 2015 By Christine 5 Comments

Operation: Surprise A Solider

In March of 2003, I was three weeks postpartum with Fruit Loop #1 and I watched with the rest of the world as our military invaded Iraq. I sat hour after hour, breastfeeding on my couch, glued to the television watching the coverage of our soldiers bravely standing up for freedom. MSNBC.  ABC.  CBS.  CNN. […]

Filed Under: The Keeper News Tagged With: military, surprise a solider, thank you

Gossip Girls

March 16, 2015 By Christine 2 Comments

Gossip Girls

As you walk into the cafeteria, your stomach lurches a little.  You look around at the groups of girls and a familiar fear fills your stomach. “Will the cool girls let me sit with them today?” You scan the room and see girls chatting, laughing and looking over at you as you walk in the […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough, Parenting My Way, People Who Suck Tagged With: mom bullies suck

What I Don’t Remember….

March 10, 2015 By Christine 33 Comments

What I Don’t Remember….

Is anyone else feeling the stress of being the World’s Most Perfect Mom EVUUUR? Is anyone else looking at The Pinterest wondering who the heck has the time to make crafts, perfect crockpot meals and put outfits together that would make Polyvore swoon? Does anyone else look around them and see moms who spend more […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough, Parenting My Way Tagged With: parenting, what the hell

All The Remembering

March 5, 2015 By Christine 3 Comments

All The Remembering

Last night at dinner and on the eve of our 8th snow day off from school this year, I was lamenting about the number of days that the Fruit Loops have been underfoot, bored, and full of bicker. The number of days that I’ve been forced to reschedule appointments and become Julie the Cruise Director […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough, Parenting My Way Tagged With: remembering is hard

Just Say No

February 25, 2015 By Christine 7 Comments

Just Say No

Last March, Hubby informed me that he was going to be participating in a car racing event during a weekend in May.  Ordinarily, I’d have just said, “Okay, have fun!” but something in his eyes made me stop and do a double take.  Something in the way he mentioned it to me signaled that he […]

Filed Under: Parenting My Way Tagged With: enough, just say no

50 Shades of Blush, er, Grey

February 24, 2015 By Christine 3 Comments

50 Shades of Blush, er, Grey

In the summer of 2012, almost every woman I knew had their face buried in their e-reader. My friends could be found at the pool, sunglassed and sunscreened, discreetly reading while their children frolicked in chlorine. I’d see women at Barnes and Noble buried in their Nooks, coffees steaming as hot as their loins. I’d […]

Filed Under: Behind Closed Doors, The Keeper Is A Guest! Tagged With: 50 Shades, Blushing

Little Boy Lost

January 29, 2015 By Christine 4 Comments

Little Boy Lost

As a parent, you pride yourself on the the little things:  getting through an hour without a toddler tantrum, managing to get a shower with minions underfoot and remembering to change your breast milk stained shirt at least every other day. You also pride yourself on the BIG things:  keeping those minions alive all day, […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough, Parenting My Way

Secrets of A Potty Training Mom

January 13, 2015 By Christine 9 Comments

Secrets of A Potty Training Mom

If you ask a group of moms what they dislike most about parenting, the answers will be varied.  Some will say temper tantrums, eye rolling or Disney channel programming.  Others will scoff at the the early mornings, diaper changes at 2 am and never ending loads of laundry.  You will hear sorry tales of ignored […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough, Parenting My Way Tagged With: potty training, public restrooms

Gratitude

January 5, 2015 By Christine 1 Comment

Gratitude

Recently, I was invited to write a piece for one of my favorite blogging sites, BLUNTMoms. The editors asked me to write about the best advice I’d ever received and about gratitude. Pfft.  Sounds like a cake assignment, right? Yep.  Easy peasy. Until I sat down to write it and stared at a blank computer […]

Filed Under: The Keeper Is A Guest! Tagged With: BluntMoms, good friends, gratitude

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