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I’ve got Tips Too

April 6, 2012 By The Next Martha 8 Comments

I love spending hours on Pinterest every week. One theme that comes up a lot are tips. Painting tips Cooking tips Decorating tips It got me thinking. Hey, I GOT TIPS. Tip one, if you don’t garden or like to garden, use the back arrow right about now. Here are some of my gardening tips [...]

Filed Under: Garden Tagged With: gardening tips, I got tips, I like electric tools best, mulch is good, rabbits are assholes, See

Room to Grow

April 5, 2012 By The Next Martha 13 Comments

Today we went to kindergarten preview for my younger son. My youngest son. My last child to be in this position. In some ways it’s been 5 million years to get to this point. A rocky road filled with extended infant colic, state evaluations, allergies, his true Irish temper, and finally blossoming into this amazing [...]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: He may be ready but I'm not, Kindergarten is harder for the parents, long road

Swimming in Gold

March 23, 2012 By The Next Martha 20 Comments

It’s March. Almost the end of March. Today is the first day of spring break and I’m already freaking out about the summer. Why? Because all the community pools are rushing me with their “Early Bird Specials” And by early bird “special” , I mean $500 for a summer pool pass for the family. And [...]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: and I'd still have to shave, Pools are expensive, summertime is expensive, they should pay me to come to their pool with shaved legs

Going For It.

March 2, 2012 By The Next Martha 48 Comments

It’s not often that I wake up to write. Often being never. But today is different. A few years ago I had heard of this amazing idea of getting women together to listen to their words. Words written on Motherhood. Last year, I watched the video’s that were posted on the few cities that [...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: holy crap, Listen to your mother chicago