Do you know why there are so many mommy blogs?
Because it’s easy.
If you have kids, you can throw up pictures from pretty much any day of your life and be like “LOOK!  I POSTED!  SPECIAL MOMENTS WITH MY KIDS!”  and someone, somewhere, will be all “awwww, you have babies and they eat turkey.  So cute.”

And [...]

She calls them “appreciations”, and we have to do them every day.
“I appreciate that…” and once a day your spouse comes up with something, anything, about you that is worthy of being appreciated.
Some days are harder than others.
“I appreciate that you finally decided to drop it.”
“You should appreciate that I didn’t kill you.  I appreciate [...]

My family is having Thanksgiving dinner without me today.
My mom and my brothers, along with the rest of their families, will gather around a table and turkey, 1400 miles to the north of me in a small ranch house in Iowa.  They’ll laugh and they’ll eat and they’ll make fun of one another.  They’ll take [...]

I debated whether or not to write a post today. I leaned heavily towards not.
The Internet will be flooded with “things I’m thankful for” posts – most of which will be ignored as the usual readers have turned off the computer in order to attend their own Thanksgiving celebrations. And that is as [...]

Look! A Thanksgiving post! On Thanksgiving! With a creative title to boot!
(Who the hell says “to boot”?)
You know, I realize that a laundry list of “things I will thank the Gods Of Turkey for” is cliche and as overdone as the constant references to being sleepy from the tryptophan. I know.
But [...]