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Continue reading →: How the Hell Do You Road Trip With Five Kids?Road trips with five kids aren’t peaceful, organized, or remotely Instagram-perfect. Here’s what actually works for us after years of hauling babies, toddlers, and big kids across the country.
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Continue reading →: I Detoured for the Bell Witch. It Was Closed.I was 8½ months pregnant when a sign for the Bell Witch Cave convinced me we absolutely needed to get off the interstate. We took the detour. The gate was closed. I’m still mad about it ten years later.
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Continue reading →: 18-Hour Road Trip with 2-Month-Old Twins — And GO!Five kids. Two-month-old twins. An 18-hour drive from Missouri to Maryland. Somehow this seemed like a perfectly reasonable vacation plan—and honestly, I’d do it again.
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Continue reading →: I Have Absolutely No Idea What I Want to Be When I Grow Up. I’m Almost 40.I turn 40 next month, and I still have absolutely no idea what I want to be when I grow up. After 20 years in the same career, five kids, a layoff, and approximately 47 different dreams, maybe that’s actually the point.
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Continue reading →: Let Them Be Little. Even When There’s Cereal All Over the Damn Floor.The cereal is on the floor. The bathwater is everywhere. Somebody is biting somebody, and Paw Patrol is apparently a matter of life or death. Someday I’ll miss this. Probably not the cereal, though.
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Continue reading →: How Many Tabs Does It Take For Me To Accomplish ONE Thing? Approximately 73.I was folding the laundry. Then someone needed milk, there were ants on the counter, the dishwasher happened, I needed to pee, and somehow I ended up thinking about Lizzie Borden. The laundry is still not folded.
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Continue reading →: I Have 3,888 Books on My TBR. No, That’s Not a Typo.My Goodreads TBR has 3,888 books. I own roughly 500 physical books, keep finding free Kindle books, and have been known to plan road trips around book sales. I can explain. Sort of.
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Continue reading →: Why Do I Take 5 Kids Everywhere?People told us having kids would mean giving up road trips, spontaneous adventures, and basically having a life. We decided to test that theory—with five kids in tow.
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Continue reading →: Welcome to In My Mom EraFive kids, a ridiculous TBR, spontaneous road trips, and approximately 97 tabs open at all times. Welcome to In My Mom Era — where the chaos is kind of the point.
