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When our kids were 2 and 3, we took them on vacation to Fort Lauderdale. On our first day there, they woke up before the sun and we went...
Capturing life's funny moments
Welcome to Kiss and Tell, a unique blog filled with knee slapping tales of my life as a stay at home mom of two, wife, writer, daughter, sister, friend and Crossfit enthusiast. Grab a cup of something delicious and enjoy.
My life has consisted of many, many fad diets. I remember the cabbage soup one- how I lost 12 pounds in two weeks, and how those 12...
You may think that the longest day of 2020 was the summer solstice on June 20. And for you, that may be true. But for my family, and I...
Have you ever cooked a well intended meal and it went so horribly wrong that your 6-year-old son felt the need to walk around the house...
Last night we were cleaning up after dinner when Zoey casually said to us, "You know how Josh and I are living through the Corona Virus?"...
I talked a little bit about perspective in my last post. It's something I've been thinking a lot about lately. When my daughter was born...
There's a reason why Mean Girls is one of the most popular movies of all time. It hit a chord with anyone who has ever been around a...
3 years ago, when my son Josh was 3 years old, he had a crush on his preschool teacher. He would get into my car in the pickup line at...
It's 8:45 on Monday morning. My husband and I just finished our workout in what used to be our sunroom, but is now our home gym. I just...
Kids' personalities are so wild. (Yes, I'm just going to jump right in to a new blog and hope you don't realize I haven't written one in...
Raise your hand if you'd like to wrap this hell of a year up and move on to the next (my hand is touching the ceiling). We can call...
Today marks the end of week 9 of quarantine. By now our kids have endured 63 days without school, the comfort of a steady routine, play...
We were supposed to go on our big California adventure in 10 days. We were going to fly to San Francisco to spend a few days with our...
If I could go back in time to September 6, 2009, and walk up to my former self, standing there in that beautiful Oleg Cassini Wedding...
It's been a while since I've written a new blog because, let's face it- every day during this pandemic, especially as a parent with young...
Remember those old commercials showing a cracked egg saying "This is your brain on crack"? Well the next few paragraphs are the thoughts...
I've always believed that things are never as bad as we make them up to be in our heads. I'm a big time worrier, and I'll often find...
During this time of being home all day every day, there is certainly no shortage of people offering opinions on what you should and...
Isn't it incredible how many different emotions a person is capable of feeling all within a short period of time? And also how a simple...
Happy Sunday! Or Saturday. Friday? Monday? Oh who cares- it's one of seven days of the week and from now on that's just about all I'll be...