It’s that time of year! Your aunt is asking what the kids want for the holidays, the kids are dropping hints or outright requests every...

At your house, the Elf on the Shelf has possibly made their first appearance, dangling precipitously from the chandelier or hiding in...

All the feels after the 10 minute version of All Too Well *plus* the short film has the whole world rebreaking their own hearts by...

My forever wedding date (I literally do not ever refer to my husband that way but it is kind of cute) and I celebrated the new marriage...

Halloween? CHECK. Now, it’s the quick and maddening descent to No School November, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and...

At 16 and in 10th grade, my kid went to their first fancy school dance this weekend. The 8th grade dinner dance was cancelled - along...

A little Schoolhouse Rock primer for you on the redistricting process that is just wrapping up in Delaware: Every 10 years = census,...

On Saturday - humid and overcast - I spent a few hours in the parking lot of the DSU campus on Kirkwood Highway, helping a few local...

It’s October, so naturally you can buy your Christmas Tree at Lowes and there is a whole holiday baking section set up at Acme. Guys, we...

It’s just ten minutes, I tell myself, when trying to schedule an eye doctor appointment for my child. Ten minutes to find the number,...

This weekend, we celebrated the upcoming nuptials of friends with a little party at our house - a chance to toast the bride and groom and...

If summer *has* to end, at least it ends in the best possible way - fall. Football games! Tailgates! Firepits! Trick or treating!...

You served us well - perhaps too well, as no one in this house seems to be rested or ready for what lies ahead … namely fall. But between...

It’s mere hours until the bus comes, until the first drop off in the first carline of the school year. Do you have all your supplies...

With all the school board meetings and mask mandates being hot topics of discussion this week, let’s reflect for a moment on the elephant...

So, *that* was a hot one. I mean all week long with the three digit heat indexes and too hot to play outside and too hot to even *be*...

What’s for dinner? When’s dinner? Do we have the ingredients for dinner? Who is cooking the dinner? Who is preparing for the cooking of...

The Olympics is blowing my mind. On the one hand, you have a sport’s top athletes competing in the same events our children compete in -...

So, it’s pretty universally known that the legal drinking age is 21. And it’s pretty universally known that some or many or maybe even...

Have you seen the neon yellow Novice Driver magnets around town, often on a car that looks a little less than new, and driven perhaps a...

Glad to be home after two weeks away at two different beaches, with books and friends and family and cousins (including one tiny one...

The dog days of summer are here - the slow roll from the 4th to mid-August when the back to school frenzy begins. In between, senses...

We are vaccinated, caffeinated, and headed to the beach for the most needed vacation ever. WFH + COVID school year + life with teenagers...

Happy Father’s Day to the dads and the “like a dads.” It’s a whole thing, the dads vs. the moms - isn’t it? Bless them all, the dads,...

Remember how hard it was, when they were little, to get them out of the bathtub and into their pajamas? Or how hard it was to get a child...

January 1 is for empty nesters (those that have not yet built their nests, and those who have moved the chicks on out!), but the rest of...

If you are looking for a wild and crazy good time over a rainy and cold long weekend, I can’t recommend bathing suit shopping enough....

You read that right. Not SuperMom - super mom does the job from September to June. This year, she homeschooled, pivoted, carpooled,...

This just in: Beginning this Friday in Delaware, FULLY VACCINATED people do not need to wear masks in public settings. So, in theory, the...

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms, all the stepmoms, all the aunts, all the grandmothers, all the wingmoms. It takes a village to raise...

What do you call it when self-care even feels like you have to force yourself in to it? Self-inflicted care? Because sometimes that’s...

Does anyone know how to live in the world right now? Like, successfully and without engaging with public safety personnel? I was just...

Weekend away in Rehoboth with a few vaccinated friends got me thinking about the small joys, and how they feel so much bigger now. Deep...

A year ago, we zoomed for Easter and had our first driveway visit with friends after the March lockdown - and we didn’t let the kids play...

Started spring break with the second covid vaccine, and I figured this was a good a place as any to share some side effects. 1. Leaky...

It’s happening. Like, happening. Our parents are fully vaccinated. People in our social network are fully vaccinated. The kids’ teachers...

We got the call we’ve been waiting for — the twins go back to school four days each week starting after spring break. Thank you, Red...

The hilarious Holderness family did it again, this week with their re-entry video, where he’s clawing at the window to get out and she’s...

… how do you measure a year? In any other year, Our facebook memories and time hops are filled with “the last time” … the last 5K, the...

I miss my friends. I miss my family. I miss my routine and my regular life and popping in to a restaurant for a bite to eat and sitting...

… and your enemies closer. Amiright, Heidi Cruz? Because one of your “Lovelies” SOLD YOU OUT this week, prompting women nationwide to...

“Here’s wishing all the days ahead won’t be as bitter as the ones behind you. Be an optimist instead, and someday happiness will find...

Before the snow started falling early this morning, you could see the daffodils were starting to shoot up — a sign of hope if there ever...

SNOW! Because being trapped in the house didn’t feel trappy enough, let Mother Nature plant 6” or more (who knows???) outside of our...

In case you haven’t heard, the course of history changed just a bit this week, when #MVP Kamala Devi Harris became the first woman...

I know nothing of thirteen year old boys. When my brother turned 13, I was already away at college. I have heard tell of his reckless...

Anyone else get a doozy of a screen time report this week? Between schools releasing their reopening plans (we heard one school is...

Winter break has been a real break in this house. We have often had to check what day it is by asking Alexa; we got take out and took...

It will be a New Year’s Rockin’ Eve like no other - an empty Manhattan on the TV, an empty living room right here at home. 2020 will...

Santa got his vaccine from Dr. Fauci himself - and our friends and neighbors at Christiana Care and Nemours and Beebe are getting their...