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Coffee Chat: Patti’s Thanksgiving Story

| Patti Webb

When Mary and I started talking about the holidays, I shared with her one of my particularly meh Thanksgivings. My parents divorced earlier than I can remember and I’ve been in a number of blended families growing up, making for some very awkward holidays to the say the least.

I had a Thanksgiving with my dad and grandmother where I was completely silent. I once spent the holiday with my mom and her friend who ended up being a hoarder. In 2008, I said I was thankful that Barack Obama was going to be president and an entire table of Boomer adults became unhinged. But in the story I’m sharing today, I am 20 and a junior at UF.

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Holiday Gift Guide 2023: Things We (Would) Love

| Patti Webb

To close out our gift guides for the season, we’re sharing the things we would love to receive because moms like gifties, too. In this whole holiday magic season, moms are at the helm. We’re driving this boat. So whether you need a link to forward to your partner or want to add these to your own shopping list to treat yourself, here are the things Mary and I would love.

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Things We Loved: October

| Patti Webb

A big thank you to Fulton County Schools for our annual fall long weekend. Tomorrow, Mary and I are headed off to the beach and to the mountains respectively, to escape a loaded weekly schedule. Finally, a catch-all opportunity to do all those family things we’ve been putting off since the beginning of school. It’s a very quick slide into the holiday season, so here’s our most recent Things We Loved before we have to switch gears for the end of the year.

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Child(ish) Reads: Momfluenced

| Patti Webb

When our blog project started, Mary got slightly offended about Child(ish) Advice being conveyed as a “mommy blog”. I told her, “You are a mom. You have a blog.”

Child(ish) Advice the blog is obviously a type of long-form media and we have multiple social media accounts; so regardless of our following, I guess we qualify as “influencers”. And today, even though this is a book review, it is also a bit of a meta moment.

Momfluenced: Inside the Maddening, Picture-Perfect World of Mommy Influencer Culture by Sara Petersen.

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Things We Loved: August

| Patti Webb

We should know by now that planning a Things We Loved post in early August is going to be a scramble. It’s the end of summer, both sets of twins have their birthdays, and school just started. While it’s not hard just to go recap into our Amazon orders, those lists are all crayons, school supplies, toiletry refills, and packs of new socks because our kids have outgrown everything. But here are a few other things that stood out.

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