This post is sponsored by Netflix and their incredibly helpful and awesome collection of TV shows and movies that you can download and watch on the go. My 8-year-old greets me each morning with a countdown: “Only ‘x’ more days until Christmas, Mom!” For him, this happy feast couldn’t come fast enough. For me, however? I could … [Read more...]
Stranger Things Season 2: A NETFLIX Give-Away
Disclosure: As a member of the Netflix Stream Team I receive special perks in exchange for my reviews & blog posts. As always, all opinions are my own! For me to burn through three episodes of a series {with} my three teen-aged daughters on a {Friday} evening during the break? There have been stranger things. We are only … [Read more...]
Happy birthday! Love, NETFLIX
Disclosure: As a member of the Netflix Stream Team I receive special perks in exchange for my reviews & blog posts. As always, all opinions are my own! It all started with a box. A box about which we were very curious. Call me clever (which would be nice) but I quickly surmised it was a gift from … [Read more...]
Boots in the House! A Brief Debriefing with More to Come
He’s home. My newly-minted Marine is home, and what I want is to talk your ear off! You’ve got two ears, assumedly—it’s okay if I have one of them, right? Because I have at least five different blog posts that have been waiting less than patiently for this Marine mom to get home from the USMC graduation, which was last Friday (the 100th … [Read more...]
A Prayer for Parents who Worry too Much
Or: On Being Intentional About What We Watch Yesterday I woke up feeling fretful—about my kids, about their safety...and so I did something that almost always helps: I drank a fifth of vodka and went back to bed. (Totally kidding! In truth, I’m currently taking a break from booze.) What I did do was go to daily Mass, and while there I … [Read more...]
Summer Stamping with Netflix #StreamTeam Passports
Disclosure: As a member of the Netflix Stream Team I receive special perks in exchange for my participation. As always, all opinions are my own! Okay, I'll be the first to admit it: The month of July's becoming excessively balmy. "Go play outside," I tell my kids, and yet inevitably they sneak back in...mere minutes seconds … [Read more...]
13 Reasons Why I Watch TV with My Teens…
...and Why We WON'T Be Watching 13 Reasons Why Warning: This post is not for everyone, as it addresses some hard cultural topics like suicide, rape and homosexual sex. True, I often aspire to be a lighthearted Erma Bombeck-esque blogger. This is not, however, one of those times. I am a very modern mom in that I am constantly telling my teens to … [Read more...]
The Simple Woman’s Daybook
The post-Chicago Edition This blog post is dedicated to my dear friend Barbara, who asked me to write a post about LIFE. It was inspired by Peggy's blog, where the daybook idea originated. For Today I am happy to be back in this space. I miss blogging dearly—I miss the connections—and I am getting close to maybe (please, God) finding a … [Read more...]
Our Daughters, their Dads, Our Sons, Ourselves
A Briefish Treatise on Movie Role Models Margaret the Blogger is back (one month later!) with yet another #StreamTeam review. Sheesh. You’d think I’d pop in more often than this. It’s almost like I’m in college again, with this #StreamTeam gig my monthly term paper. I’m writing this hastily…my March review…on the last day of March … [Read more...]
That Time that Netflix Gave Me the Finger
Warning: This post contains two extremely gory images from the zombie comedy "The Santa Clarita Diet". If blood and dismemberment are offensive to you, as they are to me, you may want to click away. That said, I include these images to make my point. Disclaimer: I'm a member of the Netflix Stream Team, which means that I get a year's worth of … [Read more...]
