Last year, my 10-year-old asked me why she couldn’t make a sandwich. Not why she wasn’t allowed to make a sandwich—actually couldn’t. She had no idea where to start, how to use a knife safely, or how to put ingredients together. That moment hit me hard. I’d been so focused on getting her to soccer […]
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The week before Christmas, my 6-year-old came home from school with a list. Not a nice-to-have list—an actual requirement. “Everyone has to bring homemade snacks to the class party,” the teacher’s note said cheerfully. I felt my stomach drop. Here’s the honest truth: I’m the mom who buys the fancy store-bought cookies and calls it
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“Mommy, why do we put a tree inside the house at Christmas?” My four-year-old asked me this while we were hauling our artificial tree up from the basement last December. I opened my mouth to answer and realized… I had no idea. I’d been celebrating Christmas my entire life and couldn’t explain one of the
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Last December, I decided we were going to make homemade Christmas candy together as a family. I envisioned my kids and me laughing while dipping strawberries in chocolate, creating memories that would last forever. What actually happened? My 5-year-old ate all the chocolate before we even started, my 8-year-old made “abstract art” with sprinkles everywhere,
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Last December, I sat on my couch surrounded by family members staring at their phones while a Christmas movie played in the background; nobody was watching. My mom was scrolling social media, my husband was checking work emails, and the kids kept asking, “When’s dinner?” The tree sparkled in the corner, completely ignored. I felt
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Monday nights used to be my nightmare. That’s when my kids would refuse dinner, complain that “vegetables taste yucky,” and I’d end up stress-eating an entire sleeve of crackers while standing over the stove. I was making separate meals, battling power struggles at the dinner table, and honestly, I was exhausted. Then everything changed when
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Three years ago, I tried to be the Christmas mom. You know the one—the mom with Elf on the Shelf doing acrobatics every morning, a different advent activity planned for all 25 days, homemade ornaments drying on every surface, and a color-coordinated hot cocoa bar that looked like it belonged in a magazine. By December
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The year my oldest was three, I’ll never forget that Christmas Eve moment. She sat in her new pajamas, hot chocolate mustache and all, nestled between her dad and grandma while we read ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas. She wasn’t thinking about the presents. She wasn’t thinking about Santa (well, not completely). She was just…
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Three years ago, I realized my kids couldn’t tell me what Thanksgiving was actually about. Sure, they knew there’d be turkey and pie, but when I asked what made the day special, my then-five-year-old said, “Um… eating?” That moment hit me hard. We’d gotten so caught up in the cooking and hosting that we’d forgotten
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Last Thanksgiving, I spent three hours making a beautiful spread of traditional dishes—herb-rubbed turkey, green bean casserole, homemade stuffing—only to watch my six-year-old eat exactly two dinner rolls and some applesauce. My four-year-old took one look at the plate I’d carefully arranged and asked if we had chicken nuggets. I wanted to cry. Or laugh.
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