Here are ten awkward moments where laughter can save the day. Repeat as necessary until the giggles (or you!) are exhausted.

Adultness does not always mean we know more – it means we have had more time to forget the lessons of childhood.

To me, the morning walk is filled with loud noises and annoying people. To my son, the morning walk is just about the coolest thing ever.

When your child has food allergies, a random sippy cup instills the kind of dread you normally save for a rattlesnake sighting.

I stayed up really late on Friday night making her cake. It wouldn’t have been as late had I remembered to grease the cake pans, had the cakes come out cleanly, had I only had to make four cakes one time.

She doesn’t have a wheat allergy or sensitivity to eggs: this is Day 3 of her sugar-free consequence.

Which brings me to the question I weigh myself down with every day as a mom. Am I enough?

While I cooked, Bug shouted from the other room, “Something smells.” Clearly a bad omen, but I shrugged it off.

I want my son to know the joy that comes from creating something – and I want to instill in him a lifelong hunger for that.

“Is he spoiled?” she asked, not once but three times, as I couldn’t hear her over the hysterical crying of my son, Amos, strapped in the baby seat of the cart, slightly damp from the late afternoon rain.