If I asked you to name a movie your kids were obsessed with when they were little or a movie that was one of your own childhood favorites, chances are high that answers to both would be a Disney title. My older daughter’s first obsession — Disney or otherwise — was the movie Bambi (don’t worry, we only let her watch until spring, and man, came to the forest). Her first word, just like Bambi’s, was “bird.” Her first best friends resided in The Hundred Acre Wood and on Pride Rock. The first ... View the Post
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Parenthood Reunion Commemorates 10 Year Anniversary of Show’s Premiere
Good news, Parenthood fanatics! Just when you thought nothing would fill the Braverman-sized hole in your hearts, the team is getting back together — or, at least part of it. It was just announced that this year’s ATX TV Festival (the TV superfan and industry insider Super Bowl that happens every June in Austin, TX) will include a script reading and discussion panel with some of our most beloved family members. (Yeah, I said family. When you’ve gone through as much as we all have with those ... View the Post
For The First Time Since My Daughter Graduated, I Feel Left Out
I come to the four-way stop and see the sign. It’s one I’m familiar with, because it’s a similar sign to the ones I’ve stuck in the ground at this same corner for years. The sign is advertising the high school’s fall musical, a show that both of my now graduated, grown and flown daughters performed in every year and something that completely consumed our lives the first few months of school. I saw the high school fall musical being advertised and feel left out. I sit stopped at the corner ... View the Post
Halloween Care Package Ideas for Your College Kid
I’ve always suffered from HBDD: Holiday Big Deal Disorder. It’s not that I feel the need to make every holiday or birthday or special occasion a bit overblown, it’s that I want to. Let’s put it this way, if themed decorations are involved, so am I. So when my daughter went to college and I was faced with an entire calendar year of holidays she’d miss out on, I knew there was only one solution: I’d have to get the holiday to her. Sending your college kid a quick, surprise care package box ... View the Post
How to Host a College College Care Package Party: 12 Easy Steps
Sending care packages to your college kid can be as hard or as easy as you make it. Hard if you make the mistake of trolling Pinterest for ideas and discover that there are people out there who construct entire boxes around a theme and make veritable scrapbook pages out of the box flaps (Bravo, seriously... but who has that kind of time?) It can be easy if you just, well, stay the hell away from Pinterest. Another way making packages can be effortless? Get your friends to make them for you! ... View the Post
Before You Return to Your Empty Nest, Embrace it Somewhere Else
Last week, after dropping our baby at college in Connecticut over 1,300 miles away (1,330 to be exact, although 1,300 sounds so much better…and closer), my husband and I escaped to Cape Cod for a three day vacation to celebrate our freedom, toast our parenting success, and kick off this new and exciting chapter in our lives. Eh, let’s be honest, the trip was really about denial, distraction, and postponing the inevitable return to a very empty and quiet house. Empty Nest Trip: After ... View the Post