One might think that a woman 5 months pregnant might relish her sleep as though it could be nuttered away for the impending REM famine and middle-of-the-night newborn hootenannys to come.
The baby has not yet arrived, so aside from a few bumps and kicks, the fetus is innocent [...]
A couple of weeks ago on my day off, I brought Maggie in to work to show here around. I was sitting in my cube just now, and realized I had forgotten to point out that I had pictures of her hung up right where [...]
Dear Maggie,
Today was your first day at your new school. The first day we have ever left you with someone you haven’t known your whole life. I have been anxious about this day for weeks.
I tried very hard to act as calm and collected as [...]
Apparently, Attila the Hun Sprang forth from the conjoined DNA strands of my husband and me.
The terrible two and three quarters are upon us. I always thought that MY CHILD would never hit the terrible twos. Miss Madge is as sweet as brownies with M&Ms and gumdrops. And ice [...]
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It’s actually my official farewell. I loved collaborating with Jenny and Jenn, the incredible, talented, warm and lovely ladies that they are. We really have had some fun.
However, working full time, managing this [...]
Perhaps the reason that so few people give good advice to new mothers is this: Real advice might scare the shit out of the most fearless of would-be mothers, steering them away from parenthood entirely.
In doing so, real advice would contribute to the end of the species. So the [...]
"I'm fucking Irish, I'll deal with something being wrong for the rest of my life."
-a quote from a scene in the movie "The Departed"
I expend by tenfold, the energy it would take to just suck it up and make major changes, by continuing to turn myself [...]
I am out of the American Idol Closet, and letting my nerd flag fly. High.
Every Tuesday, I say to myself "Sweet! American Idol is on tonight!"
Young Madge should be able to add “Big Sister” to her title sometime in late September.
This is not exactly breaking news, as I have had this little secret ferreted away since mid-January. I’m out of the gestational closet, so to say. I will be all about publicly harboring [...]
Last night, while preparing the evening meal of coarse brown bread and Johnnycakes (okay… it was quiche, really), the Handsome Dutchman came up behind me to place his hands on my waist in a loving gesture, a’la Charles and Caroline Ingalls wood burning stove foreplay.
However, because I didn’t [...]
So THIS is what’s wrong with our kids today.
Alice, of Finslippy and wonderland recently posted an entry regarding a news item that reported an increase in “problem children” for which many sociological and economical forces were considered as primary sources of influence. The [...]
Sunday in the parking lot of the Grocery store. In the middle of a Minnesota Blizzard:
Me: Maggie, you have to hold my hand
Maggie: Mommy! No! I dont want you to holding my hand!
Me: Maggie, when there are cars, you have to hold Mommys hand.
[...]I have developed newfound empathy for crack addicts. But not the kind of addictive substance Ms. Whitney Houston was referring to when she astutely observed Crack is Whack. I didnt smoke it in a pipe.
I stuffed it in my mouth. Rapidly. My crack was a lovely hot mango chutney [...]
It was week 2 of muddling through fantastically shiteous below-zero weather. I thought I would lose my mind, being cooped up all day every day. I wallowed in self-pity and lamented my boredom and the walls that surrounded me.
My self-absorbed moping was a cue for the universe to [...]
