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.
Several days ago, a young, single friend of mine was lamenting on Facebook that he wished that there was something that someone could say to him to help take away his constant thoughts about wishing he was a married man. At the time, the only thing...
Maybe it has already been tried, and whether it would work, I don’t know; But Should we try putting 2020 in a bag of rice? This week has been extra intense. So intense that with each new thing that comes along, my 11 year old has shouted out what...
I thought surely it was the coffee. I hadn’t sucked down two giant cups of it quite like that in months. Merely one step down from how a python would have done it – Entire mug shaped bulge stuck mid-way down my throat. Or maybe it was my...
“Mama, what’s a riot?” A question I never thought she’d ask. But it is a question I answered, before a long conversation on what is happening in our country, and the way that we can stand up, be a voice, and help out. “You know all of those times...
This day had me TIRED. Sending the kids outside to just listen to the soothing sound of only the dishwasher hum tired. Plan them a backyard campout that lasts several days with a sizable reward for whoever comes inside to pee the least tired. I feel...
We were not long into our nightly loop. The girls on their bikes and I, on foot, had just turned in the cul-de-sack when an old man who had been gardening in one of the neighbor’s yards drove up from behind and slowed, rolling his window down a bit...
As soon as I saw that my youngest daughter, Paige, had fixed herself breakfast on Sunday morning by spreading a half of a family-sized bag of Ruffles out on the entertainment cabinet like a charcuterie board, I really knew she was beginning to crack...
I don’t know if it started with the skinny dipping in the hot tub while only wearing Mardi-Gras beads, or with the institution of “Cookie Hour,” But Friends, We’ve thrown out all law over here. I know that we are not alone. My friend Randall –...
*Dedicated to my mom who shows me how every day. Happy Mother’s Day. I love you forever* The other day I FaceTimed my mom to check up on her. Being that she is 74, and not one to be told what to do, I have taken to messaging her often throughout...
My oldest daughter sighed today and I could see it. Nearly 21 and her faces are still the same. She is newly, and very happily married to the most wonderful man, and she even has a home of her own; But in her eyes I could see the pleading look of my...