The Mom Weekly Volume 5: Tuesday, August 22 What Could Be Better Than Tunnel of Fudge Cake? Nothing, that’s what. Sunday would have been Grandpa’s 96th birthday, and some years, including this one, I make a chocolate cake to celebrate. Almost always, Grandma would make his favorite cake—a chocolate devil’s food layer cake with a […]
Baby Island > Babel
The Mom Weekly Volume 4—Tuesday, August 15 Happy Tuesday! Today is the feast of the Assumption, so don’t forget to go to Mass. In addition to being a Holy Day of Obligation, it’s a big Catholic feast for Italians. I have this memory—but only when I was very young—of being in Wildwood, NJ, on our […]
Everyone Makes Mistakes
The Mom Weekly Volume 3, August 8, 2023 Notes: Welcome to Volume 3 of The Mom Weekly! Sorry about the button thing from last week. As I found out—and as many of you told me—an error message pops up if you press one of the buttons. I don’t know if I did something wrong, or […]
Messages My Adult Children May Need to Hear
The Mom Weekly Volume 2 Welcome to Volume 2—week 2— of The Mom Weekly! I really enjoy having this accountability and having a semi-captive audience to talk to. 🙂 You may remember that I shared these with you on Instagram from a mother/daughter account that was “recommended for me.” Sometimes IG recs are odd, but […]
Introducing The Mom Weekly
The Mom Weekly, Volume 1 For a long time, I’ve had the idea of having a weekly newsletter. My goals? *Share my wisdom as an older mom. *Suggest actionable things to optimize for a week—small steps to making life better. I want to do some of these myself. I consider this my own form of […]