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I Totally Win At Thrift Shopping (and You Can, Too, With These Five Tips)

June 3, 2018 By Christine 4 Comments

Thrift shopping is fun

When Hubby and I first started out, we had nary a pot in which to piddle. Zip. Zero. Zilch. No moolah boolah whatsoever. In fact, in the now outdated VHS of our wedding ceremony, Hubby can be seen giggling, actually giggling, through the “for richer or poorer” section of our vows. The man had to […]

Filed Under: Parenting My Way Tagged With: Suck It

9 Halloween Costume Ideas That Are Scary Good (and Easy, too!)

October 24, 2015 By Christine 2 Comments

Easy, last minute halloween costumes

As most GenXers will tell you, Halloween as we know it today was a lot different when we were kids. A LOT different. The candy choices were limited to products made by Hershey and Mars, we were able to roam neighborhood after neighborhood without parents tracking us via phone apps and everyone collected money for Unicef […]

Filed Under: Holly Daze, Parenting My Way Tagged With: halloween, Suck It

Suck It, Betty Crocker, There’s A New Baker On The Block (Me, Ahem)

June 25, 2014 By Christine 2 Comments

I have a secret. I’m an Overachieving Mom. Yep. Totes Magoats. A bonafide OAM. Feels good to get that off my chest. And now I want to be famous on a You Tube channel. Let me explain. This morning, I was reading People magazine (do not judge me:  I read it for the Puzzler Crossword […]

Filed Under: Parenting Is Hard Enough Tagged With: cake decorating, Suck It, You Tube

That Time I Didn’t Put My Grocery Cart Away But I Had A Good Reason

June 7, 2013 By Christine 6 Comments

Silver grocery cart with red handle

A month after my father died, I had a class A, megawatt, DEF-CON 5 meltdown in the pasta aisle because for some strange reason, penne pasta lead me to think of my dad. The meltdown necessitated a 10 minute phone call in said pasta aisle to my best friend who had the impossible task of […]

Filed Under: People Who Suck Tagged With: bullies, mean, Suck It

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