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,… Read More
21 Little Things I Love About Being a Mother Closing my eyes and remembering the day I brought a living, breathing, peeing, incredibly punctual being into this world. And of course remembering my OB-GYN say, Damn. That’s a lot of hair. Jumping on the bed together and falling down in a messy, giggly pile… laughing about laughing about laughing. Big… 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… Read More
Mmm… chalk dust. Allegra. On the rocks. Make it dirty. Just so you know, adults do reside in this house. You can kind of spy evidence of an adultish coffee table there in the background (yeah, that sad little brown thing cowering in front of the miniature armchair … which by the way, we don’t even own a full-sized… Read More
As I mentioned in my last post, we just finished decluttering and reorganizing around here over the holidays, and let me reemphasize what a huge relief and accomplishment it was. In fact, relief doesn’t even come close to describing how I feel. I would actually say that decluttering is the best kind of diet you can go on. I feel 20… Read More
I became a mother. I was confused, scared, tired, excited, overwhelmed, breathtaken and falling in love. It’s incredible how many dramatic changes babies go through in the first year. It’s like the entire evolution of man all crammed into 12 months. From near blindness to semi-consciousness to rolling, slithering, crawling and finally bipedalism! And me? Still pretty much the same… Read More