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Just like any other normal family…
We’re just like any other family…only we’re vampires. You’d think that we sit around in black as creatures of the night and talk of blood lust and write dark poetry. No such luck. We’re parents. Teddy...
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Why something simple like hanging a spoon on your nose is important (to a...
Since the invention of metal spoons humans have been hanging spoons off of their noses. Really. I kid you not. My son Garrett (almost 17) told me that most of his regular human friends and their...
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Wish you were here…
After a very short time (but ages in teen years) my 17 year old Garrett and his girlfriend Ione (another Vampire) decided to just be friends again. They’d been friends forever and now they’d be friends...
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Musings on Opera, Driving and Mom Time
I remember when my kids were babies I used to read blogs and articles that gave useless advice to busy moms. They’d say things like “take a bubble bath” or “have a date night” and I’d wonder who the...
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Hot days, growing up and being a mom…and a Vampire…
Summer is here. I know it is only May 11, but when it is 90F outside it is summer to me. The teens need shorts and summer shirts NOW. There are sales. We have time. But it is so hot and bright and...
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Lost Boys, Aliens and America’s Got Talent (or an evening with my teenage...
Summer is here and so is this season of America’s Got Talent. Yes, it is back along with my weekly update about what your favorite Vampire family thinks of it and our opinions. For those of you who are...
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Now What? Musings of a Modern Vampire Mom
Last night my daughter and I returned home after a week-long road trip in the American Southwest. As we hit the California border it was like the entire world changed. Not that we don’t adore the great...
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Quiet and Drama Free
Everything in school is online now. Let me reword that. Everything that parents need to know is online. The kids still have to haul around 50 pounds of books (no lockers). But grades, assignments, and...
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Laughing at mom’s blog…
I was sitting here writing my blog and my daughter sat down next to me. “Writing on your blog mom?” I smiled. “What do you think?” She read what was on the screen. “This is really bad. I mean for you...
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Sometimes…
Sometimes… It is time to let dad talk with the kids without going in and joining in. It is time to let them do their own thing. It is time to sleep with dreams that you don’t share. It is time to clear...
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My child
Childhood has gone by so quickly that I am almost in a panic knowing that I will be in a house without children. That said I know that we will always be as close as two souls can be, a bond that will...
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Charting out stress then stepping away slowly
“So he says he wants me to turn him into a Vampire. I told him no. He has no idea. No idea at all.” I listened to my friend Elizabeth as we sat over coffee in the dark cool little cafe that caters to...
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Nothing is that mysterious – not even Shadow People (or go away I need my mom...
Today I was in my car, in the parking lot at the high school waiting for my daughter Clara. I was thinking about the time last year when one of the kids in Geography gave a presentation and stated...
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When boys get sappy
Clara: “Hey Mom, I hate it when boys get all sappy.” Me: “Tell him shut the Efron up.” ~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman Note: My fifteen year old daughter and I were talking...
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A Call from College
“Hey mom, here is this guy in my organic chem class.” My college kid Garrett paused. “You might know his dad.” Of course the way he said that my mind starts racing as I run down the list of every guy...
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Mom versus the Alien Girl
When you twenty year old son is texting with his friends about the Star Trek preview with the Kirk and the weird space alien girl, and he sends it to the wrong number. ~ Juliette aka Vampire Maman
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Class of 2017
June 2, 2016. 8:00 a.m. I never thought a date of celebration would make me want to cry. That is graduation day. High School. And the last graduation from High School. OK enough of that. It is...
View ArticleThings that go bump…on Halloween Morning (or Life of a Modern Vampire Mom.)
In the wee hours of the morning, before the sun came up, before I’d finished my first cup of coffee my phone made that little annoying ping noise that indicates a text message. It was my brother Aaron,...
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Even when your kids move out, when they’re adults, when they’re feeling independent, even when they know everything, and even when they think you’re old…they still need you. That’s a good thing. Be...
View ArticleJuliette’s List of Watch a Million Times Somewhat Romantic Movies
On one especially shitty day in 2012 when the kids and husband were busy I sat alone in the dark and watched The Hangover for the third time. I laughed out loud alone in the dark. Then I felt better....
View ArticleShort Story Sunday: Mere Mortal
Leaving her lover’s bed she pulled on one of his shirts and went downstairs, past his piano, past the sleeping cats on the couch, and out through the French doors into his garden. A layer of fog...
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