Tips and Quips from a Self-Proclaimed Noob Mom.
Lately, I’ve been wondering if I have some sort of mommy bipolar disorder thing going on. Do you ever feel this way… Like one day I’m June Cleaver Super Mommy on a mission to bake bread, crochet diapers and homeschool all the children on my block. And then, as if someone’s flipped the Jekyll switch, I’m a total Mommy drop out… chain smoking by the side of the house and burning all my cookbooks as I swig Grey Goose from {Read More}
Judging by the title, you’ve probably figured out how our adventures misadventures of preschool are going. I have to say that I was secretly on the same page with most of you who voted that Noob Baby would be an Adios Mother Effer or “AMFer” as you guys aptly named her in the last blog post, The 3 Kinds of Preschoolers. +1 to reader Ashley, who was the only one who guessed she’d be the Calm Before the Storm! So, {Read More}
I don’t know who came up with the term Terrible Two’s, but whoever did, clearly never met my daughter. Otherwise, he would have aptly pissed on the term Terrible Two’s and immediately warned the world about its much nastier successor, the Totally Terrifying Three’s. I sort of imagined that once Noob Baby blew out the candles on her third birthday, the terrible two’s would ceremoniously be shed off like a dried up old cocoon. There would be a collective sigh {Read More}
On Monday, we started a new session of Mommy & Me Preschool. And like any other morning, I lay in bed praying to myself, “I hope today is the day that I get some really condescending advice from a total stranger.” And sure enough, my prayers were answered. For awhile I was starting to lose hope that such a fortuitous encounter would happen to plain old me. But thankfully, there was a new mom at MMP who wanted to come {Read More}
There is a time of day that tastes deliciously sweet … like sun-kissed strawberries bursting with the warmth of summer. Slightly tart. Secretly satisfying crunch of the seeds popping in my mouth. This time of day also tastes to me like a towering ice cream cone, or piping hot coffee in a big frothy mug, or a thick creamy chowder on a super cold day (in a crusty bread bowl of course). Mmmm… scrumptious. This time of day feels like freshly laundered {Read More}
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