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To Do: Have a Little Fun

March 17, 2019 by LeahB

I’m totally a list person. Organization does not come naturally to me, so TO-DO lists really help keep me on track. You know how adulting is. The lists usually look like this:

– pay the bills
– make the doctor’s appointments
– pick up the prescriptions
– send out party invitations
– write thank you notes
– feel guilty about never writing the thank you notes
– go to the grocery store
– get gas
– take the car in for an oil change
– return library books
– file taxes
– etc. etc. etc.

My oldest daughter, a spunky kindergartener, also makes to-do lists. Before having a friend over to play or going to Grandma’s, she’ll often make a list of all the fun things she’d like to do. Her lists usually look like this:

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Filed Under: Motherhood Tagged With: disney, dumbo, florida, fun, joy, motherhood, parenting, to do lists, travel

5 Ways Being a Mom is Like Being in the CIA

March 12, 2019 by LeahB

My two new favorite TV series of this Spring season are Whiskey Cavalier (ABC) and The Enemy Within (NBC). Though they are totally different in style and tone, both feature a male FBI agent and a female CIA operative working together to track down leads, solve crimes, and catch the bad guys.

Spending all this time in the Situation Room got me thinking about how mom life is a lot like spy life. Besides the obvious, which is that we have to sometimes actually spy on our kids to monitor their cell phone and social media usage, here are a few not -so-obvious ways that being a mom is like being in the CIA:

1. You have multiple identities.

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Filed Under: Motherhood, Pop Culture Tagged With: CIA, humor, motherhood, parenting, spy, the enemy within, tv, whiskey cavalier

Sometimes Motherhood is Mesh Panties and McDonald’s

March 8, 2019 by LeahB

I have a new piece up on Her View From Home, originally titled “Sometimes Motherhood is Mesh Panties and McDonald’s.” Tap the image below to check it out!

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Filed Under: Blogging, Motherhood

If You Give a Mom a Meme…

March 4, 2019 by LeahB

As hard as parenting is – and as hard as parenting in the age of the internet is – it has proven to be an online goldmine of kid-based humor.

Over the past few years, I’ve had the pleasure of writing memes for Disney’s parenting site, Babble. This proved to be a really rewarding side gig: I got to see my ideas illustrated and brought to life, and I hopefully made a few people smile and laugh along the way! (I mean, without memes to lighten things up, social media can pack a serious punch with its unholy trinity of guilt, fear, and mom-shaming, am I right?!?)

Here are a few of my greatest hits:

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Filed Under: Blogging, Motherhood

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Hi! I’m Leah, a mom, librarian, and blogger living and writing in the Tampa Bay, FL, area. Read More…

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