OK, February. I get it.
You suck.
You’re cold, rainy, windy, ugly, vile and mean.
And that’s on a good day.
I’m getting really tired of looking out my bedroom window every morning to be greeted with an unfriendly gray cloud cover.
Of having to wear 5 layers when I go outside just to be mildly comfortable.
Of hearing […]

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OK… I am a New England Patriots FANatic, as are most New England Mamas.
And the two weeks since the not-so-Super Bowl for us New Englanders have begun to heal (a tiny bit) what reason cannot.
Don’t get me wrong. I still wake up mornings with that sense of disbelief and, well, broken-heartedness that is our […]

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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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OK, I’ll admit that I’ve always been kind of a girly-girl when it comes to understanding football.
This year I was kind of forced into "getting it" a little more because my husband coached football at his high school.
But that doesn’t mean I completely enjoyed sitting through the games.
It’s not that I don’t like sports. […]

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I wrote a post over at New England Mamas today about how hard it is for me to choose a presidential candidate.
I expressed a desire to find some sort of technology that would allow me to punch in my stance on certain issues, and then - voilà! - present me with my ideal candidate.
Well, wouldn’t […]

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This picture is from December 1994, and it’s (left to right) me (Jane), Mom, Dad and Audrey. It was taken before our high school Christmas dance, before our dates arrived to pick us up! Mom, could you have maybe suggested I put a little make-up on? Can you say “pasty white!?”

This next one is from […]

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You can find me over at New England Mamas today…
And did someone mention prizes?
Prizes! Prizes! Prizes! over at New England Mamas!
Get your prizes over here!
(Oh, I guess I mentioned prizes…)
- Jane

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Cyrano de Bergerac.
One of my all-time favorite plays.
I remember in high school, during my senior year English class, we had to choose a play to dissect in front of our class.
My mother knew I was “obsessed” with love stories, so she recommended I read Cyrano de Bergerac.
It quite honestly changed my life.
I fell in love […]

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One of our holiday traditions used to be the family trek to the tree farm to pick out the Couto Family Christmas Tree.
We would usually go the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving, pick out the perfect tree, take turns cutting it down with our saw, and spend that evening decorating our fragrant, freshly cut evergreen.
The […]

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