Welcome

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PBJ and Chardonnay is written by Michelle Xiarhos Curran.

When I started this blog back in 2013, I was mother to a 9, 5 and 3-year-old and with my fourth child soon to come. Like hundreds of thousands of other “Mommy Bloggers,” I was trying to deal with the joys and insanity of motherhood by writing about it in real time.

When my children acted up, did something amazing, caused me distress, said something poignant or made me feel like I was failing at the most important, soul-crushing, fulfilling job in the world – parenthood – I wrote about it. Regularly, at first. And then more sporadically. Between 2016 and 2020, when COVID hit, I posted only once. And by the time I thought about reviving the blog, most of my children had grown up enough so that their stories were no longer my stories to tell.

But the urge to write about life, current events, social issues, friendship, writing, love, loss – and yes, maybe even parenthood occasionally – never left. And I still have things to say. I hope you’ll follow along.

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