I have this fancy Givenchy bag. I don't know what the Kardashians have in their bags - I bet they have really expensive products or six cellphones or something. I have a cellphone and some lipstick for me, and the rest is just filled with stuff for the kids - sunscreen and lip balm and little Ziploc bags of pretzels and cheese sticks.

Julie Bowen

Categorized in : Kids Littles Bags

It's a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.

Julie Bowen

chance patience war

I'm on a strict gossip diet. No gossip websites, no gossip magazines. Otherwise, I find it paralyzing to exist.

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website gossip magazines

Children are like crazy, drunken small people in your house.

Julie Bowen

crazy children people

In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.

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mom football sports

Success is getting up one more time than you fall down.

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falling-down more-time fall

As I have gotten older, I've discovered the joys of being lazy.

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being-lazy lazy joy

I grew up playing field hockey and lacrosse - prep school sport - and I was terrible at them.

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hockey sports school

I take the kids skiing every year, and my husband doesn't always go. The way I grew up, that's very normal. My mom would take us skiing, but my dad hates cold weather.

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dad husband mom

I do find it odd people choose to do stuff that makes them look like crazy Hollywood faces, but I've got zero judgment.

Julie Bowen

zero crazy people

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

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together feels

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

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rail decades

At restaurants, I carry paper and markers and tell everyone to draw a picture with a unicorn, an octopus and an explosion. That keeps kids still for a minute.

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octopus paper kids

I don't always run in the mornings, but I am definitely better if I run in the mornings.

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ifs running morning

I have three kids. I should know how to take care of them.

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care three kids

I just can't seem to make myself care about what I look like when I am working out.

Julie Bowen

work-out care looks

Everyone [of my kids] can ride a bike now, so the park has had a big resurgence in our life. We also play a lot of dumb drawing games.

Julie Bowen

games play kids

I read books more than I go out.

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book

I was class mom at the preschool one year and I was pretty much asked not to do that again!

Julie Bowen

mom class years

I'm built like a 14-year-old boy. I have no waist, so anything I wear has to have a lot of trickeration going on. I don't fit into girl dresses. I can't just slip it on.

Julie Bowen

girl boys years

I read some article where Reese Witherspoon said, "If you're not yelling at your kids, you're not spending enough time with them." It made me feel so much better.

Julie Bowen

enough-time yelling kids