Roll your eyes if you must, but (as you know) I consider my dogs my kids.
But lately, I feel more like I’m raising teenagers. Yes, 4-legged teenagers.
Case in point:

That’s Ryder, riding shotgun in my car.
Remember those teenage years of riding in silence with your parents because you were too cool to talk?
Doesn’t it look like […]

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Yesterday I had one of those experiences about which you can laugh hysterically… after the fact.
You know what I mean?
I took William to his karate class, and brought Alexander along, too. All 3 of us had to use the bathrooms before class began. So we booked it real quick to the restrooms.
The only […]

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I always knew that I had a special relationship with my mom.
But it took me awhile longer to realize that not every daughter had a mother like mine.
I guess, when I was younger, I thought that all mothers were just like mine.
I thought that all mothers woke their daughters each morning with a loving kiss […]

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I had the opportunity to learn about Safe Kids while at Camp Baby earlier this month.
The mission of Safe Kids Worldwide is to prevent accidental childhood injury, a leading killer of children 14 and under, and has actually reduced the unintentional injury death rate for children within that age range by 45% over the past […]

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I had an epiphany of sorts last week.
Audrey’s oldest son, 3-year-old William, is getting very interested in letters and words. I happen to have a little sign hanging on my back door inside doorknob, and he was studying the words on it: In the Garden.
“What does this spell,” he asked.
I answered, “In the […]

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Girls, young women, ladies… all ya’ll, listen up.
Do not take your clothes off for this man:

I cannot emphasize this enough.
Oh, that smiling face? It’s one Joe Francis. In his mugshot.
You may not be familiar with the name Joe Francis, but you may be more inclined to recognize the name of his company, which has brought […]

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We’ve all done it.
That polite smile.
You know what I mean… the type of smile when somebody you’re talking to goes on and on and on (and on…) about something you already know about, but you still must stand there listening.
I don’t know about you all, but I often find myself doing the polite smile.
Yesterday, for […]

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I imagine that most sports bars and Super Bowl parties across New England looked and sounded the same last night around 10 o’clock.
Stunned faces. Dead silence.
(Meanwhile, I pictured the reaction at similar sports bars and Super Bowl parties across New York, New Jersey - and the rest of the country, for that matter - as […]

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Speaking of GREEN…
Our chum CK has started a new blog called Green Is Her New Blog. We’re loving this new site and it has tons of GREAT tips for GREEN living!
(Our pal C is a guest contributor, too!)
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Our lucky mama pick today on Pinks & Blues is the Great Uses for Vinegar book… loaded with […]

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My husband loves coffee milk.
Coffee milk… as in 2 or 3 tablespoons of Autocrat Coffee Syrup mixed into a nice, tall glass of cold milk.
This, in my experience, is kind of a Rhode Island thing. I had never heard of Coffee Syrup until I moved to Rhode Island. And the phenomenon doesn’t stop […]

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