Denise Schipani / 18 Comments / holiday, mom bloggers, shopping, Uncategorized / Meagan Francis, The Happiest Mom, The Kitchen Hour /
As I was mulling over the subject of this post — do we owe it to our kids to give them A Great Holiday? Does your definition of A Great Holiday involve a certain number or type of distribution of gifts? A certain price point? An even-Steven stack for each child? — I read this […]
Denise Schipani / 14 Comments / Ask the Mean Mom, helicopter parenting, parenting, parenting controversies / " Free-Range Kids, Ask the Mean Mom, helicopter parenting, Lenore Skenazy, Meagan Francis, Nancy Grace, The Happiest Mom /
Questions and answers. Who doesn’t love ’em? Just the other day, when the four of us were driving home from a family event, our boys slipped into fierce, rapid-fire question mode. My husband found it exhausting (though certainly better than breaking up fights!), but I like it, even when it’s tiring: I like answering their […]
Denise Schipani / 30 Comments / family life, guest posts, mom bloggers / Meagan Francis, The Happiest Mom book /
I first “met” writer and mom Meagan Francis on an online forum for writers. She was awaiting the overdue delivery of her fourth son. Since then, we’ve become friends on- and off-board, and have met in person at more than one writer’s conference (which tend to include margaritas at some point in the weekend, which […]
Denise Schipani / 8 Comments / humor, mom bloggers / Christina Frank, Debbie Koenig, HGTV, Jen Singer, Jennifer Carsen, Jennifer Lawler, Lisa Bonchek Adams, Meagan Francis, Momma Tries /
Yesterday, I got a lovely email from a fellow blogger I recently “met,” named Jennifer Carsen, who writes the blog Mommy Tries. She told me she’d given me a shout out in her blog, and in a sort of good-side-of-the-chain-letter way, I want to give back. Writing, mothering — both are, at many times, lonely […]