Welcome to Twenty & Change
Last year I had what my circle of friends refers to as a “Quarter-Life Crisis.” I realized I didn’t have the career, baby, husband or house with a white picket fence that I imagined for myself before...
View Article‘Boomerang’ kids saving money, but at what cost?
I’m sure if I ever lost my job, my parents would gladly let me move back home. Though that would involve returning to the Scranton area and sleeping on a twin bed in a room that has been converted...
View ArticleI believe in a thing called love (oh, and marriage, too)
Kim Kardashian’s divorce was the icing on the cake. Not because I actually care about what happens to the big-bootied reality TV starlet and her young husband, but because it was yet another divorce I...
View ArticlePregnant yet? How about now? Or now?
It’s time for me to make babies. I know this not because I’ve found my soul mate, gotten married and settled into a financially stable career. I know this because my insurance company tells me so. Last...
View ArticlePillow talk: 20-somethings and our need for zzzs
I just wanted my boyfriend to stop breathing. And I mean that in the kindest way possible. At 3 a.m., as I sat there wide awake in bed, I wished he could intake air just a little quieter. I’m sure it’s...
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Have kids?! But sometimes I still am one myself
Sometimes my sister and I still act like children. I have faith she'll grow out of it. The verdict is still out on me.Kids scare me. There, I said it. With the exception of my boyfriend’s 4-year-old...
View ArticleQuarter-life crisis round two: marriage and kids
Here we go again, I tell myself, about round two of a quarter-life crisis. I thought we were over this last time? I have been bombarded for months already with engagements, weddings and babies in the...
View ArticleMotherhood is tough
My long, lazy mornings are gone. It doesn’t matter if I worked until 5 a.m. anymore, at 7 a.m., Junie Bea is up to use the bathroom. She’ll fall back to sleep for a little while, but by 9 a.m., she’s...
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Crazy cat lady: I can never be a real mom
Ginger, the drugged kitty, has an injured shoulder. My level of freaking out was way past normal. She on the other hand, rests on it.Just a warning: This blog post is ridiculous. And I am a crazy cat...
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Was there emphasis on exercise and limiting TV when we were young?
Old-school pic of me and my twin, Emily, from back in the days when we could play outside all afternoon and come home for dinner when Mom rang a bell.I know it’s a different world now than it was when...
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