BrandywineBuzz
- Dec 12, 2022
- 1 min
Wish List
Gone are the days when we would earnestly sprinkle reindeer food in the front yard before bed, when the kids would race to see if Santa...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Dec 5, 2022
- 1 min
December.
In a few weeks, it’s 2023. Once again, I find myself asking - where has the year gone? One look at my kids tells you we did not spend the...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Nov 28, 2022
- 1 min
Tis The Damn Season
Write this down. The holidays are coming in hot and it’s time to manage expectations all around — mostly other people’s expectations of...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Nov 21, 2022
- 2 min
Acts of Kindness
A few years ago, one of our children woke up with a stomach virus on Thanksgiving - so we scrapped our plans for the day, got my mom to...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Nov 14, 2022
- 1 min
Self Care is Healthcare
My friend’s apple watch dinged her for not closing her rings and she was like “ummm, yeah, I was RESTING.” I got on my daughter’s case...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Nov 7, 2022
- 1 min
No Excuses
You can’t sit this one out. You just can’t. I feel like every two years we have to have this conversation, but like literally, you can’t...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 30, 2022
- 1 min
Hallowhat?
Cute halloween costumes are so far in our rear view mirror that I can barely remember them — but it all comes rushing back when I see a...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 24, 2022
- 1 min
Midnights
Oh, Taylor. You sing the songs of my GenX heart with the beat of my Millennial energy and the undying love of my GenZ daughter. We can...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 17, 2022
- 1 min
Hoco Pocus
Parents of teenagers are in the midst of surviving the fall social season known as Homecoming. HOCO. HC. It’s been a rollercoaster of...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 9, 2022
- 1 min
Firefighters
This is great advice: just put out the fire in front of you. After all, if something is literally in flames, nothing else matters - not...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 2, 2022
- 1 min
Rocktober
It’s October. Rocktober. Knocktober. Socktober. And the Halloween - and spirit week! - scaries are ready to descend. Lower your kids’...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Sep 26, 2022
- 1 min
Fall Fun vs Fall Fret
Fall fun is here! Pumpkin carving! Apple picking! Firepits! Football games! Fall decor on the front porch and Halloween plans brewing!...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
Working Moms Dilemma
We’ve all heard the joke - work, sleep, family, fitness, friends - pick 3. But what if I want to pick more? What if I want to work AND...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Sep 11, 2022
- 2 min
Big Week Ahead
Football is back! Thursday afternoon, Friday night, Saturday allllll day long, and Sunday allll day. My boys were playing football in the...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Sep 5, 2022
- 1 min
Fall into fall
Farewell Summer 2022. You served us well - perhaps too well, as no one in this house seems to be rested or ready for what lies ahead …...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Aug 28, 2022
- 2 min
Transition Time
The most important thing to remember at back to school time is this: everyone is exhausted and out of sorts. People that are used to...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Aug 22, 2022
- 1 min
Costume Change
When they’re little, your regular persona is Train Conductor. You keep the trains running on time, blow the whistle, get everyone out the...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Aug 15, 2022
- 1 min
The End of the Summer
One of my very favorite singer songwriters Dar Williams wrote a beautiful song called The End of the Summer and one line is resonating...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Aug 8, 2022
- 2 min
The Fun Of It
I saw a friend post this week on FB about how her child made a batch of zucchini bread from scratch, and someone commented “get her on...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Aug 1, 2022
- 1 min
How Exactly
Somehow between a massive heatwave and who knows what else, it’s August. AUGUST. August as in the month of back to school and errands and...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jul 25, 2022
- 1 min
The Dog Days of Summer
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jul 17, 2022
- 1 min
The Nice Kids
I’m sitting on the beach yesterday and a group of teens walk by; I’m reading my book and drinking my Fresca and not paying any attention...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jul 10, 2022
- 1 min
3 Lessons from a Teen Mom
Yes, I’m a teen mom. No, not a mom that is a teen - but rather a mom OF teens. 1. Teens are nocturnal. Yes, they want to rock and roll...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jul 4, 2022
- 1 min
Dog Days
It’s the dog days of summer and my kids are living their best lives, sleeping late and binging Stranger Things and biking to the pool and...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jun 27, 2022
- 2 min
We Are Not Okay
On Friday morning I woke up with three children equal in the eyes of their government. Before noon, it was announced that one child was...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jun 20, 2022
- 1 min
Checking In
How’s Summer Parenting going? This week, our boys had two spontaneous sleepovers in a row, rendering them completely useless for days....
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jun 12, 2022
- 1 min
Summer Time
Unpopular opinion, but summer in our house is not for brushing up on our math skills or mandatory summer reading or organizing the...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jun 5, 2022
- 4 min
This is a Job for Summer Mom
You read that right. Not SuperMom - super mom does the job from September to June. During the school year you can find her running the...
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BrandywineBuzz
- May 30, 2022
- 1 min
School’s (almost) out for summer!
For kids in Uvalde Texas, school’s out forever. It’s so terrible. Personally, I find it unacceptable. Harry Styles says so, 70% of the...
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BrandywineBuzz
- May 23, 2022
- 1 min
Feeling ’22
The Class of ’22 is doing their thing. Look at all those graduates, surrounded by love and their families and their friends and their...
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BrandywineBuzz
- May 16, 2022
- 2 min
What’s For Dinner Forever
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- May 9, 2022
- 2 min
It Takes A Village
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- May 2, 2022
- 1 min
Mother's Day
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Apr 25, 2022
- 1 min
Limping Toward the Finish
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Apr 18, 2022
- 1 min
Easter Musings
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Apr 10, 2022
- 1 min
Play Ball!
Baseball is BACK - and with it, the muddy knees and concession stand dinners that are the perennial accompaniments to the season. If you...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Apr 3, 2022
- 2 min
Magic
Teenagers can be something else, amirite? But somehow this weekend, it was magic. Call it almost spring break, call it Mother Nature...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Mar 28, 2022
- 2 min
One Week At A Time
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Mar 21, 2022
- 1 min
Spring Fever
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
Happy Anniversary!
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Mar 7, 2022
- 2 min
Unmasked
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Feb 28, 2022
- 1 min
March Madness
March arrives this week - and with it, the usual madness. Hoops on TV, spring break looming, the kids have outgrown every article of...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Feb 21, 2022
- 1 min
Chess not Checkers
Parenting is — without a doubt — chess, not checkers. You have to play several moves ahead at all times, see the whole board from every...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Feb 14, 2022
- 1 min
Baby Book Moments
When they are little, the baby book moments come one after another. First time they slept through the night! First major public diaper...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Feb 7, 2022
- 2 min
All politics is local
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jan 30, 2022
- 2 min
The Best Kind of Invitation
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....
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jan 24, 2022
- 1 min
The Second Winter
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 -...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jan 17, 2022
- 1 min
United We Stand
Voting rights are on the line. The pandemic rages, filling hospitals and overwhelming health systems. There is school stress and winter...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jan 10, 2022
- 2 min
Goals
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Jan 2, 2022
- 2 min
Here We Go Again
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...
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