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Job Description

Last week when I told Laurel that keeping up with her soccer stuff wasn’t my responsibility, she asked to see my job description. Apparently, I have been repeatedly telling her that certain things are not my job and she finally decided it was time to see some proof. As I unsuccessfully tried to suppress my hysterical laughter, I wondered how many times I had asked myself that very question ov…

  • Posted 3 days ago.

Please Don't Make Me Play Rain Fairies

I tried hard not to groan aloud when my 8-year old daughter asked me to play her current favorite game of Fairies with her while we were swimming last week. Fairies is an elaborate game of pretend that Laurel has concocted that involves me getting magic powers when she dumps water on my head. I am starting to believe that Fairies is just an elaborate ploy to tell me what to do and get me wet at th…

  • Posted 1 week ago.

My Junk Drawer (aka The Drawer That Won't Close)…

Thanks to a suggestion by Di, the featured bloggers have decided to take a break from our regular musing about our children, spouses and crazy lives and declared this to be a theme week. We’ve decided to kick off our first theme week by all writing about “The Things in My ___________” and each of us is taking a different location.

  • Posted 2 weeks ago.

Road Trip

When we got into the car to head home from a recent vacation in Baltimore, I handed both of my kids an iPhone, a few books to look at and a snack. I had even downloaded a new game before we left so that I could have a peaceful drive home. Our journey down I-95 began peacefully with me singing off-key to country songs on the radio, my husband napping and the kids happily playing video games. Then …

  • Posted 3 weeks ago.

The For Sale Sign in My Yard

Ever since my kids were born, I have been dreading the prospect of one day selling a house and moving with young kids under foot. Since the interest rates are lower and our kids are a little older, we recently decided that this was great time to put our house up for sale so we could move closer to town. Shortly after 2 pm on Sunday, I found myself seriously contemplating ripping the For Sale Sign …

  • Posted 1 mon. ago.

The Golf Tournament

I recently watched my seven-year old son line up his putt on the last hole of the golf tournament. He was leading by one stroke and needed to make the putt to win his division of the club championship. With every part of me, I wanted Trevor to sink the putt and take home the trophy. But I didn’t want him to win so I could brag about him being the best or because I wanted to live through his …

  • Posted 1 mon. ago.

Mommy, When Can We Go to Krispy Kreme?

When I first heard that Krispy Kreme was going to be opening a location in Wake Forest, I tried to keep the fact from my kids for as long as possible. I was hoping to avoid answering daily (if not more often) questions about when we could go get donuts. However, the kind people at Krispy Kreme solved the problem by hanging a large sign outside with a countdown to how many days until the Grand Open…

  • Posted 1 mon. ago.

The Fleeting Magic of Birthdays

My kids begin counting down to their birthday many months before the big day. They spend hours contemplating the theme of their party, and who will be on the guest list. Each time that we go to Target, they insist on looking through the cake book to decide what which cake they want to order for their next birthday. It often seems that the planning begins for the next year on the day after their bi…

  • Posted 1 mon. ago.

The Best Lessons

Earlier this year I found myself endlessly reminding my kids to wear their helmets when they rode their scooter. I ran down the street carrying their helmets, put them in time out for getting on the scooter without the helmet and finally took it away for the day. While they religiously put their helmets on every time they hop on their bikes for some reason they had amnesia when it came to their s…

  • Posted 1 mon. ago.

Best Loved

If you need to find my family on the afternoon that a new Disney/Pixar film is opening, I can guarantee that we will be in movie theatre enjoying the film and eating popcorn (extra butter, of course). Because it is a family tradition for us to see new Disney/Pixar movies on opening day, our family headed to the movie theatre to see Toy Story 3 last Friday.

  • Posted 2 mon. ago.
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Meet Jessica

Our featured mom this week is Jessica Leib.  If you would like to be featured on Triangle Mom2Mom or know of any interesting moms who would be interested, please send me an email. Mom2Mom: Tell us about yourself.

  • Posted 3 days ago.
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Got Culture? Weekend Ideas 8/27

It's time to get cultured Triangle kids & parents! Here's what the Notes from a Mom in Chapel Hill team brings you this week:

  • Posted 6 days ago.
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Back to the lunchbox

For some of us, back to school means back it's back to packing lunches. Sandar Gutierrez, former columnist for the Cary News, had some great lunchbox suggestions that hold up just as well today. I especially like the homemade lunchables because homemade is always tastier and more economical! ###

  • Posted 1 week ago.
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Meet Jennifer

Our featured mom this week is Jennifer Knight.  If you would like to be featured on Triangle Mom2Mom or know of any interesting mom's who would be interested, please send me an email. Mom2Mom: Tell us about yourself.

  • Posted 1 week ago.
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Get Around the Triangle: Weekend Ideas 8/20

We at Notes from a Mom in Chapel Hill have been reminded lately how wonderful and diverse the Triangle region is.  A few cities combine to make a living, breathing, wonderful place to raise children. Here are a few things that tickled our fancy this week and took us all over the area:

  • Posted 1 week ago.
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