Making my kids hate me one post at a time.
Every now and then I want to be inspirational. It’s not that often, perhaps, but even I stop wisecracking once in a while and get serious. Today I’m sharing one of my favorite pieces, full of very real – but still very funny – advice to my niece. All the things I wish I knew when […]
Today, I have a surprise for you. Mike is not all snark. He has a real, beating heart under there – and some serious smarts when it comes to raising kids. Since his kids are young adults and mine are still little curtain-climbers, I’m gleaning some wisdom from this post while I laugh. I bet […]
I haven’t been pregnant in more than 2 years (ahem, thank goodness with how this one went down), yet this is still one of my most popular posts. I guess it’s all you women who, despite all these sucky things about being pregnant, keep doing it again and again and again. ; ) Sooo, I […]
A good friend and I were recently reminiscing about our single days and she reminded me of this little gem of a pickup line a guy once used on me. As I was leaving the dance floor in a noisy club, he grabbed my arm, leaned into my ear and shouted, “You dance sexy — […]
My friend Mike and I went to college together (a long time ago as you can tell by this grainy photo). We did stupid things, LOTS of stupid things — not the least of which is evidenced above. Yep, that’s both of us – and I can assure you I’m not unhappy the picture quality […]
Although I wanted daughters my whole life, I ended up having two awesome boys instead. I’ve always been a bit of a guy’s girl so in the end, someone knew better than I did. But coming from a family of all girls, I was really scared when I found out I was carrying a member […]
I’m not one of those women who hates football. But I do hate Pro Football. In fact, when the SuperBowl is on in my house this Sunday, I’ll be way more interested in the ads than the game. Other things I’ll be way more interested in? The US Weekly on my lap, the buffalo wings […]
I originally wrote this post for the blog Mommy Shorts when she was just on the verge of explosion into second-time motherhood. I’d already been there for about 9 months at the time and was constantly struck by how different I was with the second one than the first one. With Asher, everything had to […]
