For years, I would spend a month each Fall coming up with a clever and original answering machine message to put on our voice mail for the holiday season. It often had music or singing and when they were younger, my kids were eager and active participants in our clever messages. A few years ago, however, those messages became outlawed. My teenagers did an intervention with me and shared how embarrassed they were and how horrifying my rhyming and whimsical holiday phone messages were. For the good of the order, they had to go. Now that my teenagers are older … Continue reading →