Gaw. It feels like all that I ever do on my days off from work is laundry and trips to the grocery store. Yesterday was no different.
Following a nearly-two hour midday nap, Ryan finished his lunch and seemed in a perfect mood for me to drag him to the grocery store. So I jumped at [...]
As Easter approaches and I think about which traditions I’d like to start with my own child, it prompts me to think back on my own childhood.
When I was a kid, I both loved and dreaded Easter. Same goes for the Tooth Fairy. Why, you may ask? Because of my dad. He used to say [...]
There’s this weird phenomenon that women experience pretty much the second that they find out that they are going to become a mother. And it continues, for quite conceivably, the rest of that woman’s life. It’s called “Mama Guilt”.
Mama Guilt is essentially this overwhelming sense of guilt that makes a woman feel like [...]
I had the much-needed experience last Saturday night of having a “Mom’s Night Out”. Seven of us got out of our normal mommy gear of yoga pants and stained t-shirts, put on a little make-up and left the babies at home with their fathers in order to whoop it up. It was a much needed [...]
I have finally discovered a food that Ryan will eat–Spaghetti!
I snapped a few shots of him following once particularly messy pasta experience. I forwarded them to my mother-in-law, who promptly responded back with, “I really think spaghetti was invented by Kodak rather than the Italians.” She may be right. Just look at this face!
Last year for my birthday my husband gave me a great gift–in theory. It was a gift certificate to a local day spa for a one-hour massage and facial. I was ecstatic! The thought of being pampered just 2 months after becoming a mommy was pure heaven.
Now it is almost a year later and I [...]
So I have recently moved over to a new stage in parenthood–that of trying to reason with a toddler. Activities that were once simple, like changing a diaper or giving a bath, have become feats that are worthy of a Purple Heart. Now that he has learned to exert some independence, my once compliant and [...]
Last Saturday night was my aunt and uncle’s annual Christmas Dessert Party. I was excited about taking my son this year, as last year when we took him he was only a month old and we were all so damn sleep deprived that I don’t even remember it. I just knew that this [...]
As I go through my mail and open more and more envelopes filled with Christmas greetings from friends and family, I’m noticing a trend. No longer do people send out holiday cheer in the form of a cheesy winter drawing of snowmen or reindeer and a sappy poem printed inside. No sir! [...]
Today I was “That Mom”. You know who I’m talking about. “That Mom” is the one whose child goes completely berserk in public and everyone gives her looks like, “Jeez, can’t you control your kid?” or, “Wow, you have absolutely NO parenting skills, do you?” You know you’ve all given those looks before. I have [...]