BrandywineBuzz
- 6 days ago
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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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BrandywineBuzz
- Dec 27, 2021
- 1 min
Time for The Rest
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
Hectic for the Holidays
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Dec 13, 2021
- 1 min
Done is Better Than Perfect
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:...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Dec 5, 2021
- 2 min
Homicron for the Holidays
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Nov 29, 2021
- 2 min
Wish List
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Nov 22, 2021
- 2 min
It’s Fine.
At your house, the Elf on the Shelf has possibly made their first appearance, dangling precipitously from the chandelier or hiding in...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Nov 15, 2021
- 1 min
Blog (Taylor’s Version)
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Nov 8, 2021
- 1 min
Wedding Bells
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 31, 2021
- 1 min
The Whac-A-Mole Years
Halloween? CHECK. Now, it’s the quick and maddening descent to No School November, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year’s, and...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 24, 2021
- 2 min
Happy Hoco
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 17, 2021
- 2 min
Schoolhouse Rock
A little Schoolhouse Rock primer for you on the redistricting process that is just wrapping up in Delaware: Every 10 years = census,...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 10, 2021
- 3 min
Service Hours
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Oct 4, 2021
- 1 min
Slow Down
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Sep 26, 2021
- 2 min
Ten Minutes
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,...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Sep 19, 2021
- 2 min
Ages and Stages
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Sep 12, 2021
- 1 min
Fall Fun
If summer *has* to end, at least it ends in the best possible way - fall. Football games! Tailgates! Firepits! Trick or treating!...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Sep 5, 2021
- 1 min
Farewell Summer 2021.
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...
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BrandywineBuzz
- Aug 30, 2021
- 2 min
It’s Go Time
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...
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