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Four Ways Having a SON Has Helped me to Better Understand my Husband

April 18, 2017 by Melissa Chapman 21 Comments

I’ve been married for 18 years and with my husband for 20 years. I met him when I was 23 years old and while I truly believed I knew all there was to know about men, the bottom line is I knew NOTHING. I mean how could I possibly, truly understand what it feels like to think and be a man– I’m a woman. I don’t own those parts, I’m not privy to that psyche I simply don’t have INSIDER access to what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, MMSG, Parenting Tagged With: Fathers and sons, Inside the mind of the man, Motherhood Musings, Mothering a Son, Mothers and sons, Raising a Son, the bond between parents and kids, what makes boys ticks

I’m gaga for Roseanne’s NUTS, FINALLY a celebreality show that speaks to me

July 15, 2011 by Melissa Chapman 3 Comments

So what was I doing this past Wednesday night  at 9pm/8c   you ask? I was LAUGHING my ass off watching   Roseanne's Nuts   on Lifetime ...like literally laughing so hard that the tears were streaming down my face, and my   husband suggested that I put down my food for the remainder of the episode lest I choke to death. I LOVE that Roseanne   speaks her mind. PERIOD. She doesn't pretend to care … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MMSG, My Sugar daddy, Relationships Tagged With: Comedians that make me wet my pants, Lifetime Televsion, married my sugar daddy, Melissa Chapman, Mothers and sons, relationships, Roseanne Barr, Roseanne's Nuts

My six year old son is destined to be an architect (and K’NEX are his tools of choice)

April 27, 2011 by Melissa Chapman 2 Comments

We live in a house in which every square inch is filled with a toy of some kind and yet ask my  six year-old son where the build-a-SpongeBob character  we bought him    six months  ago is and within three minutes he will produce it for you. I guess when your most pressing concern is should I eat a sandwich with peanut butter and jelly or just jelly, there's likely lots of room in his noggin for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Bonding with your kids, building with your kids, Knex, Mario and Luigi, Melissa Chapman, Mothers and sons, the Staten Island Family, Toys for Kids

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