Monthly Archives: September 2014

The Case For School Uniforms, Number #2749

Raising tween-to-teenage girls is such a tricky, tricky business, isn’t it? At 13, Emily so desperately wants to grow up. She wants to wear mascara (clear only, love), she wants to wear heels (I’ll allow the wedges for now), she wants to “dress more like Blair Waldorf this year —…

The Bed Commandments

Isabella has this particular way of being tucked in to bed. I don’t know where it came from, but somewhere along the line it became a thing. A thing that she requires every single night. She sleeps on top of a plush red blanket with white polka dots and she…

For Asking

The thing about coming from a long line of obnoxiously independent people is the crippling inability to ask for help. I mean, sure, this is mostly a positive thing. I’m capable! I can do everything! I don’t need anything but me! Except, you see, it means that I can’t ask…