Julie Bowen
I count myself lucky to be fairly anonymous but occasionally have people tell me nice things.Collection: Nice
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.Collection: Kids
My husband is very funny and his humor has gotten us through a lot. He's good at defusing me.Collection: Husband
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."Collection: School
I use an app called ChoreMonster. The kids earn points for brushing teeth or picking up the dog poop. It's genius.Collection: Dog
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."Collection: Brother
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.Collection: Kids
I'm in total celebrity denial in general, but there's awareness that probably if somebody has met you, they might go and tell somebody. I just would rather have the word on the street stay at a neutral, not like, "She shows up in a ball gown," but "She seemed nice." That's fine.Collection: Nice
In my family, Mom can lead the sports activities, no problem! Except football - that, my husband does.Collection: Sports
How many times can you say, "No yanking on one another's genitals?" Everything is hilarious until someone starts crying.Collection: Cry
We make them [kids] earn the stuff they want. They're not going to play with their iPad today unless they do their chores.Collection: Kids
I really like putting the kids to bed. Everyone is cozy and snuggly. Nobody is giving anyone a hard time, and everybody reads.Collection: Kids
Kids don't seem to recognize when they're hungry until they're starving and in the emergency zone, so I'm like, "Who wants some apple slices and cheese?"Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Kids
We can't have iPads until after 7 p.m. Otherwise the entire day is, "iPad time? What about now?" It makes me crazy. And no TV on weekend mornings.Collection: Morning
I think it's pretty common for people to get excited when they meet somebody that they know from the media.Collection: Thinking
I frequently do drive carpool in the clothes I slept in, because it's impossible to get three children out the door with lunches packed and all that stuff and have a do.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Dog
[Preparing for award shows] gets insane. The dress, the hair, the makeup...I end up always picking the dress at the last second.Collection: Makeup