The Class of ’22 is doing their thing. Look at all those graduates, surrounded by love and their families and their friends and their...

The stress of a formula shortage on top of the stress of every other part of parenting is more than anyone should ever have to bear. I...

The Flower Market was back for a hot minute after COVID and Dolly Parton spent the lunch hour on Thursday at the Wilmington Library and...

I am just going to say that putting Mother’s Day smack in the middle of spring is some special kind of BS. Hopefully you can enjoy your...

Here we are. Spring break is in the rearview for us all, finally, after what felt like the longest winter. And somehow a week from now is...

When the kids were very small, we dyed the eggs and hid the eggs and got the matching Easter outfits and read stories about both the...

Baseball is BACK - and with it, the muddy knees and concession stand dinners that are the perennial accompaniments to the season. If you...

Teenagers can be something else, amirite? But somehow this weekend, it was magic. Call it almost spring break, call it Mother Nature...

There’s snow in the Wednesday forecast and the wild forsythia in our backyard is in full bloom. Not sure what is happening out there with...

Spring fever is more contagious than the Omicron variant, it would seem. We had a bad case of it this past week, which was not helped by...

Happy Shutdownversary, says my pal in The Group Chat this morning. Talk about stopping me in my tracks. I mean, I know it and I knew it...

How’s it going out there in the unmasked world? For us, my teens said “it’s fine” but the big changes aren’t necessarily the masks, but...

March arrives this week - and with it, the usual madness. Hoops on TV, spring break looming, the kids have outgrown every article of...

Parenting is — without a doubt — chess, not checkers. You have to play several moves ahead at all times, see the whole board from every...

When they are little, the baby book moments come one after another. First time they slept through the night! First major public diaper...

If you live outside of the current Representative District 4 - or honestly, even if you live inside of it — you may not know there is...

The group chat was off to a hot start Saturday morning with the snow, and one friend says “hey, we’re going to make chili later....

It’s our second COVID winter. Every day we hear of someone’s brother who had COVID (he’s fine), someone’s toddler has COVID (she’s okay -...

Voting rights are on the line. The pandemic rages, filling hospitals and overwhelming health systems. There is school stress and winter...

Something I’ve been thinking about lately is the concept of a Reading Challenge. I’m a reader but like, not to be stressed out. The...

The CDC recommends that we all shout “do over” and run to the sidelines and start again. And again. In our house, we’re beginning the new...

The gifts have been gifted, the cookies baked and eaten and the clean up is underway - which means now, it’s time for The Rest. Not “the...

We bumped into the Grinch on Friday night at Penn Cinema, posing for pics with kids and walking through the lobby with a fair number of...

It’s December 12. Another 12 days, and the Elf goes back and the presents are distributed. And so, it is time for this timely reminder:...

The music on WJBR is the same, the ornaments are the same, the recipes are the same — but the vibe is so, so different. Think back to the...

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...