As you all know, and to many people's shock and dismay, I have three small children. In fact, from July 9 to July 31st I can say I have a one, two and three year old. That, to anyone except maybe Michelle Duggar, is a lot of little kids. All of them are trying to [...]
After 67 years, 8 children and 12 grandchildren, my beloved father in law passed on the 4th of July after a year long battle with emphysema and cancer. Interesting how we have been expecting it but it still seems so sudden. As a fairly new mother, my challenge was in what to tell the children. [...]
When I met my husband at the nice, young, firm, everything was in the right place age of 30, I boasted that I knew everything. I had been on my own half my life, put myself through college and had a budding career as a Wall Street suck up.At 33, we married and I found [...]
**Originally posted Jun 30, 2010** Mothers, I have learned, are tired. I have never met one that is not. I have met mother's who have said they feel great because they finally got a good nights sleep, but that is one night and the next day, she's tired again. The level of tired seems to be proportionate [...]
When I peed on a stick - 15 sticks - and found out that I had hit a home run in the interview process and was officially hired into the crazy business of motherhood, I was ecstatic. I lived the next 9 months making plans, decorating a nursery, gaining "baby" weight that still sticks to [...]
Every once in a while there are things in life that make me just scratch my head and say hmmmm. Like child proof pill bottles. Seriously, who are you kidding? They are adult proof and I have cursed and thrown many to prove it. And box wine. Who came up with this and where do they live? [...]
A sense of humor is one of those things that you hope your kids get. No one likes the kid who can't crack a joke - its just awkward to be around them. Unless they invent something cool - like Windows - then you excuse them. It's only fair. And though my husband often says [...]
There are many things that every Mother wants to experience with her kids. Their first steps, first words, first day of school. We want to see them smile, hear them laugh and cherish their play. We look forward to their first friends, their favorite teacher and even their first broken heart. We do not, however, [...]
Tomorrow we leave on a weekend trip that I am so excited about, I am contemplating lacing my coffee with Valium and keeping the tumbler filled continuously until we return home Sunday afternoon.I think I am most excited about the 5am wake up call. There is nothing more refreshing than waking 3 cranky, tired children out [...]
