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This Mom’s Rules for Raising a Son: There are no Rules

December 17, 2018 by Melissa Chapman 8 Comments

This Mom's Rules for Raising a Son: There are no Rules

I grew up in a house full of women. By the time I was twelve, and my mother finally gave birth to a son after having three daughters,  I'd been surrounded by so much estrogen I wasn't even sure that  there was room for any testosterone in my life. By the time I was 12 I also had a FRONT-ROW seat to the in-law drama that my mother lamented about on a daily basis. We lived around the corner from my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Motherhood Musings, Parenting Tips Tagged With: being the mother of a son, mother in laws, Motherhood Musings, parenting boys

My Love/Hate Relationship with Family Holidays

December 23, 2015 by Melissa Chapman 3 Comments

I don't know about you but here is a little slice of what my Holidays usually resemble: My husband who abhors traffic-I think it is truly the bane of his existence- he would be infinitely more eager to have a root canal than sit in traffic on the New Jersey Turnpike- basically throws my kids and I out of bed- so that we can "beat the traffic" and get down to my sister's house-in South … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Motherhood Musings Tagged With: Family Holidays, Family Ties, Long Car Trips, mother in laws, parenting, Passover, The Ties that Bond

3 traits that good husbands possess (and what wives really find sexy!)

May 6, 2012 by Melissa Chapman 1 Comment

This is such a fragile, strange period in our marriage. My father passed several months ago and since his death, my mother has lost her motivation to move forward. So of course as her kids, my siblings and I are essentially doing everything we possibly can to physically draw her out of the hole she's begun to dug for herself. It is a daily battle with my mother- and to be perfectly blunt we're … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MMSG, Uncategorized Tagged With: Husbands and Wives, marriage, married my sugar daddy, Melissa Chapman, mother in laws, relationships, What wives really find sexy

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