In honor of this special day dedicated to motherhood, I want to share a few favorite pics and links to a few Mother’s Day columns I’ve written through the years. Investing in Motherhood I wouldn’t be where I am today without all the lovely moms who’ve invested into my life. My mom and her mom, [...]
I’m having a very Monday-flavored Friday, so I thought I’d post a couple of recent happenings to remind me to laugh at life. Ironically, I just got off the phone with someone who asked me if I had any funny stories to share about life with boys. This person was clearly not aware of my [...]
The newest member of the “family”… Eli’s been asking for a bamboo plant for a while. Why? I don’t know. He just thinks bamboo is cool. So when I saw these bamboo plants at IKEA for a couple of bucks, I thought I’d get him one. He was even more excited about it than I [...]
Sometimes I can be a little slow to learn. I haven’t been doing so well lately. My lupus has been flaring a bit. Stress can trigger it, and I’ve been cowering under a heaping ton ’0′ that lately. I can’t get my mind to stop racing; it just ping-pongs from one issue to another, all [...]
The weather was warm yesterday, so we made an impromptu trip to DQ for some treats. They really did enjoy them, despite the expressions above. Jonah accidentally got ice cream on his nose, which he thought was hilarious. So he started dabbing ice cream on his nose, on purpose, for laughs. Couldn’t quite catch a [...]
Kari Apted is a writer and speaker residing in Georgia with her husband, three sons, and an ever-changing menagerie of pets. She writes a humorous weekly parenting column for The Covington News and freelances for various publications.more»