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Author M.J. Pullen blogs with humor about her life as a writer and working mom raising two padawans with her own personal Mr. Darcy.

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He didn’t have a fever. There was no vomit or strep throat or even a runny nose — none of the usual signals that my workday was about to go off the rails so I could be home with my kid. Why, then, would anyone in her right mind pay to send her child to  […]
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It’s Weird Al! On Grammar! I think my work here is done. Okay, not entirely done. If you want the full grammatical analysis of the video, you can check out this article on Slate. The article also mentions one of my favorite Vampire Weekend songs, “Oxford Comma.” That is the best title to a song,  […]
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Tie-Dye/Graffiti Beach Towels  (a.k.a. my attempt to be a Pinterest Mom) We are having a splash park birthday party for Skywalker and Fozzie in a couple of weeks, and for some reason “psychedelic beach” is the theme that’s evolved for it. In an attempt to avoid spending $20 per attending child on bags of crap  […]
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This caption contest is brought to you by my latest attempt to do something I found on Pinterest… Please submit your suggestions for a caption to the picture below. You can vote on captions you like by replying to the commenter with the words “vote.” I’ll pick a winner to receive an autographed copy of  […]
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I just got back from a lovely, mostly relaxing long weekend at the beach with my husband’s family. Everything on the trip went as smoothly as we could have hoped: the five kids (our two and three cousins — all eight and under) behaved and got along great. The weather was perfect, the ocean clear.  […]
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People often say that after you settle down and are married or committed to someone for a long time, and especially after you have kids, life becomes less exciting and romantic. And, well, yes. It does. Sometimes it’s hard to feel sexy when you’re sleep deprived, exhausted and all the bathrooms in your house smell  […]
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Skywalker: I don’t want to go to camp next week. Dad: No? Really? Skywalker: No. I want to have camp at home with Mommy. Mom: You’re going to have lots of days at home with Mommy later in the summer. What’s wrong? You’re not enjoying camp? Skywalker: I like the swimming, but we can do  […]
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A couple of people have asked me lately about my ratings on Goodreads and why I don’t seem to write reviews of the books I’ve read there. People also sometimes come across my blog and ask me to review their books here, and I almost always politely turn them down. The answer is that I  […]
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I’m feeling a bit of turmoil the last couple of days. The kids have been crazy off, especially Skywalker, who is still adjusting to the long hot days at his new summer camp. Maybe it’s because today Friday the 13th AND a full moon, and the whole week has been weird in preparation. It could  […]
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Well, we did it. We managed to conquer the various kingdoms of Disneyworld in Orlando last week, hauling around a couple of tired and over-stimulated kids who, in my opinion, seriously don’t appreciate how much more fun life is for them than it was when we were kids. Exactly like our parents did before us.  […]
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