Making my kids hate me one post at a time.
10:30pm, Monday night. Getting ready to invite a visitor into my bed because my husband is gone for the night. Some almost imperceptible urge makes me tiptoe to the front of the house and look out. Dammit. So much for sliding between the sheets. My neighbors’ garbage cans line the street. Gabe is out of […]
I had my first baby 6 years ago last week. How did he get to be 6 already??? On his birthday, between muffin-making and school-party-attending, I was obsessing thinking about how exciting it was to find out I was pregnant with Asher and then I started thinking about how freaking obsessed with baby products I […]
My husband is many things. One of those things is a good sport. Which is why he’s okay with me putting things like 8 Signs Your Husband is Annoying Your Around The House and The Top 10 Ways to Get Your Husband to Leave Work on Time all over the interweb. (And despite what some […]
This week, I presented another post in the feature, “What He Said, by Mike.” This one about how to know when your wife has gotten too comfortable with you. Mike presents valid arguments like she wears sweats and socks to bed and offers a complete lack of grooming down below…IF she offers anything. Am I […]
The day has finally come for me to say goodbye to my breast pump. We’ve had a long and complicated 8-month relationship. I know what you’re thinking. 8 months? 8 months is not a relationship, it’s a fling. Well, my dear, you couldn’t be more wrong. My pump and I have had a relationship that’s […]
Blogging is kind of a weird profession. You have no boss, no coworkers to read your work and give you feedback. You wait for inspiration, or you just start writing and see what happens. When things go right, you get excited. Really excited. Finger hovering above the publish button, you feel a little juiced. And […]
Current milestones at our home: A, Age: 5 Started kindergarten Didn’t get kicked out of kindergarten. Fingers crossed, 4 weeks in. Decided of his own volition to start calling me by my first name instead of mommy, which puts me in danger of having an Amber Alert taken out on me. Especially when he screams […]
I learned something new after my first real family vacation last week. The first thing I learned is something any of you who’ve undertaken one already know. A family vacation is little more than taking care of your family in a cooler location. The duties of taking care of children don’t disappear when you take […]
