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more behind the scenes shots with the SuperSisters tribe here

While I’ve been crying in my beer over here, all kinds of amazing things have been happening in other areas of my life. The most exciting is that a year and half long conversation with the amazing people at PBS is giving way to a brand new blog written by myself and my sisters Kristen (aka Mommy Needs a Cocktail) and Patience (aka Kindness Girl). Our fourth sister Kate is keeping me going by sending fabulous fashion to one of my favorite writing subjects, the incredible Madeleine.

SuperSisters is a PBS parenting blog with a focus on child development which basically means all the stories about my kids that you’d normally find here, you’ll find there. I just wrote a piece about Carter having a crisis about a less than inspiring new teacher and the peanut gallery’s (Madeleine + her cousins) take on how to solve the emotional firestorm. If you go over and leave fifty comments, I swear I will be so deeply happy and grateful.

There’s a lot of things I could say about PBS after spending countless hours in their hallways, sometimes with my kids and their five younger cousins making happy chaos, but the truest thing is this: you will not find nicer, more playful or genuinely caring people on the planet. I knew doing this blog would be good for my writing resume, but I had no idea how good it would be for my heart.

Having allies in Jean Crawford and Jeannine Harvey has been a high point in my life this last year–these women are not only smart and incredibly dedicated, they are also so much fun. I once retrieved one of Jean’s shoes from underneath a rolling taxi AND ate the most decadent chocolate on earth with Jeannine, all on the same day. That’s saying something.

Jean and Jeannine have also given us carte blanche to write whatever the hell we want about parenting–a huge act of faith on PBS’s part, especially in light of the fact that not one of us is capable of coloring inside the lines if we don’t want to. I respect them for that and am really loving telling stories about my kids and their cousins in such a supportive space–I don’t think they’ll be disappointed.

Here are some gems from our first week of the launch:

Back-to-School Blues or How Lucy Saved the Day
Ten Ways to Love Your Ten Year Old Girl
Welcome to the SuperSisters Neighborhood

And here are two posts from Kris and Patience’s blogs that totally kill me every time:
But How Did… (sex ed for the masses)
The Chocolate Gestapo Interrogates (really, every video my sister shoots is hysterical)

Please stop by and say hi! It would be so great to have some warm company to get us started right.

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