Excerpt from Ladies Home Journal, LHJ.com/Community/Your Stories Okay, I’ll say it: After four kids and 25 years of marriage, it’s not easy to get in the mood for sex. My husband would disagree. I can give you the play-by-play of my first date with the man I married: the Greenwich Village restaurant, our heads tilted in ...
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These are some of the things I know to be true about my mother-in law: She believed without a doubt that her four sons were perfect. And even if they weren’t, she never said otherwise in public. She taught me to set up the coffee maker in the evening so all you had to do was push a button in the morning. The definition of a ...
Most young children compete with their siblings for their parent’s affection. My sisters’ and my rivals, however, were my father’s plants. He adored lush ferns and bright colors, lipstick red summer geraniums and the bold purple of miniature lobelia. Our lawn was golf-course green and weed-free (you can read more on how you can easily achieve this). ...
I'd love to hear your stories, advice, thoughts on sending a child off to college. This will be my first time and I'm going to do a segment on Good Morning America in August. It's going to be a piece on good advice from other Moms-- so please write me if you have some tips on what you bought that was useful, how you handled yourself when you dropped ...