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Mom Used To Say Monday: Grown-Ups are Just Kids With a Better Veneer

July 15, 2019 By Vicky Leave a Comment

Mom Used To Say Monday: Grown-Ups are Just Kids With a Better Veneer

I used to believe that once I became a mom, I’d be a full-fledged adult. If I’m in charge of raising other human beings, I should be done growing up myself, right? Wrong. ⠀⠀ Apparently, life-long learning is a thing & some of us are slow learners… meaning we wrestle with the same bullshit over […]

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Mom Used to Say Monday: The Burden of Responsibility is Gone

July 8, 2019 By Vicky 2 Comments

Mom Used to Say Monday: The Burden of Responsibility is Gone

Sprawled out on my extra-long twin bed, phone cord stretched to the limit, I mustered up the courage to ask the question that’d been swimming in my head for months. “Why do you think we get along so well now? I mean, we never got along before I moved out. What’s changed?” “I think you […]

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Mom Used to Say Monday: Stop telling me everything…

June 24, 2019 By Vicky 4 Comments

Mom Used to Say Monday: Stop telling me everything…

Growing up, my mom and I weren’t what you’d call “close.” Who am I kidding… we didn’t’ get a long at all… AT ALL. I knew with complete certainty that she loved me. And I was just as certain she didn’t like me very much. There were a million reasons why we never connected – […]

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Mom Used to Say Monday: Just Because You Can Swim…

June 17, 2019 By Vicky Leave a Comment

Mom Used to Say Monday: Just Because You Can Swim…

As a teenager, nothing sent my eyes rolling heavenward faster than my mom’s words of wisdom. She had a cliche at the ready in any situation. Little did I know, those quips would be rolling off my own tongue once I became a mom. Her most famous quote was this: “Just because you can swim, doesn’t mean I’m […]

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How to be a Successful Parent Like Me

April 29, 2016 By Vicky 6 Comments

How to be a Successful Parent Like Me

Many literary experts agree there are approximately seven plot lines in existence. Every story, no matter the setting, characters, climax, or resolution, is simply a variation of one of these seven main plots. One could argue this is true in parenting as well. The lessons which teach our children are all variations of a handful […]

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My kids didn’t choose me… and that’s OK.

March 21, 2016 By Vicky 5 Comments

My kids didn’t choose me… and that’s OK.

      My reaction to kid/parenting videos like these evolves in 3 phases. Phase 1: The Ugly Cry. (Tears streaming and snot dribbling included.) Phase 2: The irrational fear that I am a terrible parent who will never raise kids like that. Phase 3: The decision to quit our jobs, sell our home, and […]

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Fourteen Ways 41 Feels Like 14

January 12, 2016 By Vicky 7 Comments

Fourteen Ways 41 Feels Like 14

We sat around my parents’ table. To my right, my 18-year-old niece preparing to go to college. To my left, my 97-year-old grandmother. Thousands of experiences between them – lessons learned, dreams fulfilled, storms weathered. And still more to come. We sat at parents’ table and laughed until we cried, shared silly and embarrassing memories, […]

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What I’ve Learned After 16 Years of Marriage

December 30, 2015 By Vicky 2 Comments

This summer, I was married 16 years. Forty percent of my life has been spent committed to a man I met when I was a 22-year-old graduate student, living on my own for the very first time, on the cusp of beginning my first “real job.” On the eve of my 16th wedding anniversary, I was […]

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The Awkward Conversations Aren’t Always with Your Kids

December 7, 2015 By Vicky 8 Comments

The Awkward Conversations Aren’t Always with Your Kids

I used to think a “good mom” always responded with mama-bear-like ferocity when she learned her cub had been injured- physically or emotionally.  Twelve years of motherhood had taught me differently. First, there’s no such thing as a “good mom.” We are all the best moms we can be with who we are and what […]

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Real Life Instagram Filter Names

November 3, 2015 By Vicky 14 Comments

Real Life Instagram Filter Names

I embraced turning 40. I felt stronger, happier, more content in my own skin than I had at any other point in my life. My marriage was strong, my friendships established. I had accepted my flaws and my pants size… Well, maybe not “accepted” my pants size. But I definitely worried about it much less […]

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