Divorce In My Previous Life – Do I Tell My Children?
My three and a half year old daughter asked me what the word “divorce” meant. My husband and I had just finished talking about a friend who is about to divorce and her little ears must have been...
View ArticleA Child’s New Vocabulary – Kids Say The Darndest Things…
My daughter has learned a few new words this week that she can’t stop putting into conversation. I’m quite certain she has no idea what they actually mean but she tells me that she enjoys saying that....
View ArticleThe Locker Debate – A Day at the Gym for a Not-So-Fit Girl
Why is it that the skinniest, most fit and most attractive women are the ones who pick the gym lockers closest to the door? So after I have eaten an entire Chipwich and decide that I need to go to the...
View ArticleTwitter – I’m Not Sure I’m Hip Enough For It…
In my quest to be hip, I couldn’t help but investigate Twitter. I’d love to introduce this blog to more and more people so I wanted to see what it was all about. I quickly realized that maybe I wasn’t...
View ArticleDisney Princesses – I Swore I Wouldn’t Do It
Before I had kids, I swore that if I ever had a daughter, I would never expose her to Disney Princesses. I would want her to be a feminist, to not need a prince to rescue her or a magic genie to make...
View ArticleMommy needs a time-out
My three year daughter got a time-out this morning. We are working on not whining and it isn’t the most successful endeavor. However, when the crying and drama had passed, she asked me if I ever get a...
View ArticleIt’s Camping Season – Can I Just Go To A Hotel??
My husband loves camping. Where most people look forward to warmer weather, I dread it a little bit because I know what it means. It means that my husband will start making comments about how much...
View ArticleWhat if you could answer questions the way you really wanted to?
When I wrote last about my grandmother, I explained how she is suffering from dementia. This was confirmed by her doctor last week when they conducted a test containing 15 cognitive questions and my...
View ArticleSleep training handbooks should come with a complimentary cocktail
Sleep training handbooks should come with a complimentary cocktail. Something stiff, like a scotch or maybe just straight vodka. When my first daughter was born, we followed the book religiously and...
View ArticlePlacentas in a jar? Is this a new childbirthing trend?
A friend of mine is pregnant with her first child and I was so impressed when she told me that she wasn’t going to take child birthing classes. Her idea was that it was going to happen no matter what...
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