We've had four or five casts in three years. There was a point when I thought the Department of Children and Family Services was going to show up at my door!

I discovered on school days, when they've got to get up at 6:30, they won't get out of bed. But on the weekends, they were up at 6 a.m. I was like, "Why do you guys wake up so early on the weekends?" It's like, "Because I wake up and I think, Is it a TV day? And if it is..." So we had to change that rule. I'm like, "Thank you for telling me what I need to do."

I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.

[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.

I tell my kids, "Look, your life is a video game, and I have to get you from level zero to 18 as an independent person with all your skills and limbs intact. Every time you hit your brother or throw food, you're taking us all back."

I live alone with my one dog and they say it like it's a sad, it's a terrible thing. This woman lives alone with her two cats.

I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.