Hi!
My name is Kerri Green;
Wife to Justin, and mother to four highly entertaining daughters
-Alena, Chloe, Tessa, and Paige.
I am an artist, a writer, a daycare provider,
a lover of people, a believer that there is humor and beauty in all things,
and the author of Mom Outnumbered;
a blog about real family life, and my observations of it.
My goal is to make people laugh,
to be there for them when they cry,
and most importantly,
to let them know that they are not at all alone in this up and down world.
I live with my family in Sebastopol California, and I am opening the window into our life.
So welcome!
Come in.
Sit down.
Just please don’t mind the mysterious wet spots.
On Thursday, my 14-year-old daughter, Paige, announced that several of her friends would be coming to our house to get ready for the football game on Friday night. I just stood there, doing that strange smile moms do at 14-year-olds who are telling...
My youngest daughter, Paige, has been having some anxiety lately. It happens most often in the car or at bedtime. It happened on her way to Lake Tahoe with her best friends a few weeks ago. She called me from a mountainside four hours away, in a...
I have had a lot of feelings come up in the last couple of days centered around the fact that I’ve worked from home as a stay-at-home mom for the last 20 years. I look back, and I have done it all, but so much of the work I’ve done has been the...
I have always struggled with change. Maybe that is how I ended up moving back to the same street I grew up on. I love what feels comfortable. I love what is familiar. I remember when we moved back here to the house we are currently in, how I had to...
I’m in need of good dopamine boosts these days. My timeline apparently knows this, and is suddenly flooded with AI videos of Christmas time in the 80’s and 90’s: Kids riding in the back seat of their parents station wagon for pizza at Pizza Hut...
The other day, while standing in my garage, I heard a scream and a sob from next door that definitely sounded like an injury. It was my 2-year-old granddaughter, Mavis, who lives with her mom, dad, and baby brother in the house attached to ours. I’d...
Yesterday morning, I looked at my phone to discover the horrible news so many of us discovered: That Dolly Parton died. I wasn’t surprised by how it shook me. I have long admired a person who stays kind, and true to their convictions. I had followed...
My daughter, son-in-law, brand-new grandson, Henry, and 2-year-old granddaughter, Mavis, live in a house attached to ours. It is one of my life’s biggest privileges to be able to be this close to them. It means that we can share dinners, I can help...
There was a lot of commotion here this afternoon. Every family member was here. The TV was on. The baby fussed. I was trying to trim my two-year-old granddaughter, Mavis’, hair in between also cooking dinner. It got to a point where I was feeling...
This house is being overrun with hormones. Parenting multiple teens while in Perimenopause sometimes feels like a joke. Half the time I expect to have someone walk out and reveal hidden cameras, so I can laugh nervously and say, “OK. It all makes...