By Kelly Normally, I love the dollar bins at Target. They are right up front, filled with all sorts of cheap trinkets and chic treasures. They are glossy and bright and alluring and everything is a dollar. (Except for the items that are $2.50. Sneaky Target executives, I’m on to you.) I try to walk…
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Almost Lake Wobegon
By Kelly It was rainy and cool in Minneapolis this past weekend, harbinger of an autumn that’s coming on much too fast. Fighting the doldrums and Early Onset Cabin Fever, my husband and I gathered our three kids Sunday afternoon and headed to the Minnesota Children’s Museum. We hadn’t visited since spring. Summer is glorious…
Mom, The Fashionista
By Kelly Yesterday, I spent 90 heavenly minutes in Ann Taylor Loft shopping for new clothes. The older kids were in school, the baby napped in her stroller, my travel mug was filled with steaming Sumatra with hazelnut cream. I may have floated a little as I browsed through the sweater selection. It was glorious….
Bedtime Thoughts
By Kelly The kids wouldn’t go to sleep tonight. They sat in their beds and read books and played Legos and skittered down the stairs to suggest that they might sleep better if they could just get some scissors out of my office and create a pretend computer out of paper before turning in for…
School Daze
By Kelly I know for many families in the United States, school is already underway. Which leads me to ask, “Seriously? School on August 9? Who does that?” Here in Minnesota, school doesn’t start until the day after Labor Day. (It’s the law.) And while I don’t want to sound all high and mighty, I’m…
Margin
By Kelly Last night, as I waited for my brain to turn off and the drowsiness to descend, I read through my journal from last year. I was sad and slightly startled to see how much depth my writing had 12 months ago. These days, my writing tends toward the surface and the amusing. Nothing…
The Hallway of Pew-Pew
By Kelly Warning: This post is not for the weak of stomach or the faint of heart. Or for those eating breakfast. Especially if you’re eating Cocoa Puffs. Connor, my three-year-old, is currently potty-training. He’s not all that thrilled about it, since he’s just fine with diapers — even if they are sagging to his…
Memories in a Flash
By Kelly I finished Connor’s baby book last month. Don’t be impressed. He’ll be five in October. The books — that’s right, I’m confessing, he has baby books, plural, as in more than one — are so mammoth, they really deserve their own birth announcement. “Kelly @ Love Well is thrilled to introduce her newest…
Ho, Ho, It’s Magic, You Know
By Kelly Around 6:00 every evening, something magical happens at my house. Doesn’t matter if the children have been playing happily while I make dinner or if they are crabbier than Dr. Cox on a busy day. When that garage door goes up, the very air around us electrifies. (In a good way. Not in…
The Trade-Off of Being a Stay-At-Home Mom
By Kelly So I heard another Batman movie just hit the theaters. Anyone know anything about it? I’m kidding, of course. “Dark Knight” set a new record its opening weekend, raking in an astounding $158.3 million. To compare: The number two movie for last weekend, the chick-flick “Mama Mia,” only managed to pull in $27.6…