shopping – Toulouse and Tonic https://toulouseandtonic.com Making my kids hate me one post at a time. Mon, 01 Apr 2019 17:39:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.17 39181224 Boy Mom In The Girls Department. The 5 Stages of Grief. https://toulouseandtonic.com/boy-mom-girls-department/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/boy-mom-girls-department/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2014 21:00:46 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=6693 *post contains affiliate links I’m the mom of 2 precious, crazay little boys who take their mission to teach me patience very, very seriously. But growing up, I always wanted daughters because I had only sisters and I love all that girly stuff – the dresses, the hair, the makeup, the ballet lessons … I would never in a second trade […]

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]]> https://toulouseandtonic.com/boy-mom-girls-department/feed/ 12 6693 21 Ways to Tell if You’re Becoming Your Mother https://toulouseandtonic.com/20-ways-tell-youre-becoming-mother/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/20-ways-tell-youre-becoming-mother/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2014 01:44:05 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=5857 Some people can’t wait to become the woman that is their mother.  Other women have spent their young lives thinking, “I’ll never be like that.”  But guess what?  You will.  The minute you have a kid, it starts and before you know it – you’ve morphed into her.  Wonder if it’s happening to you?  Here are […]

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]]> https://toulouseandtonic.com/20-ways-tell-youre-becoming-mother/feed/ 10 5857 The Gift of #Luvocracy https://toulouseandtonic.com/the-gift-of-luvocracy/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/the-gift-of-luvocracy/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:52:14 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=5686 This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Luvocracy. I have a gifting faux pas story I’ve never shared with anyone.  It’s been about 6 years since it happened and today, I’m getting it off my chest by sharing it not with one friend, but with every single one of you. My […]

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]]> https://toulouseandtonic.com/the-gift-of-luvocracy/feed/ 3 5686 My Morning with the Moto Jacket https://toulouseandtonic.com/my-morning-with-the-moto-jacket/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/my-morning-with-the-moto-jacket/#comments Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:53:25 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=5510 Today, I’m introducing you to someone whose writing I adore.  The love affair (okay, maybe it’s more of a stalk affair) began quite some time ago and was carried out strictly online for months and months but then something happened — something that transcended the internet.  Meredith of The Mom Of The Year wrote a […]

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]]> https://toulouseandtonic.com/my-morning-with-the-moto-jacket/feed/ 12 5510 Things I’ll Never Say https://toulouseandtonic.com/things-ill-never-say/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/things-ill-never-say/#comments Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:45:20 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=4579 As we’ve discussed before, I’m not a big talker.  That’s probably why I sit behind my computer just tippy-typing all day long.  That way, I get to say whatever I want and I only have to say it once.  Geez, I hate repeating myself.  I hate it so much that If I had the time, […]

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]]> https://toulouseandtonic.com/things-ill-never-say/feed/ 34 4579 20 Lies Women Tell Themselves https://toulouseandtonic.com/lies-women-tell-themselves/ https://toulouseandtonic.com/lies-women-tell-themselves/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:34:30 +0000 https://toulouseandtonic.com//?p=4262 Friday night, I did something I haven’t done in more than a decade. No, not THAT. I had REAL SOUR CREAM. Just as I was about to take that first bite, a wave of guilt washed over me.  Why would I waste all those extra fat grams on real sour cream when the low-fat stuff […]

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