My boyfriend Dave and I are approaching our 3 ½ year anniversary and I’m pretty sure that makes me a relationship expert. How did I get so smart? Easy. Everything I know about relationships, I learned from the tabloids. If you have doubts or concerns about your relationship, I suggest you head immediately to your [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
What I’ve Learned From Celebrities About Relationships
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My Babysitter Is Better At This Than I Am
When observing your kids’ caregivers in action, do you ever get an inferiority complex? I’m SAHM-ing it these days, but I swear our date night babysitter puts my parenting to shame. She’s like the Latina Mary Poppins: cheerful yet calm, confident yet flexible and seeming to possess a black belt in the parenting arts. (No, [...]
Posted in My Family, Parenthood Tagged baby, babysitter, blog, childcare, domestically challenged, funny, Girl Scouts, Halloween, Home Ec, humor, Mary Poppins, mom, mommy, nanny, Project Runway, SAHM, sewing, toddler 4 Comments
My Anti-Bucket List: 10 Things I Have No Interest In Doing Before I Die
Damn that Morgan Freeman–the whole world is bucket list crazy. Walking through any airport bookstore, I’m bombarded with thousands of things I should be doing, seeing, reading and eating before I die. Too many things! Can’t be done! Time is precious, sure, but is turning life into an epic to-do list the way to enjoy [...]
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Did I Have To Know I Was Pregnant?
When I was knocked up with Viv, Dave and I became obsessed with the television program “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant.” Have you seen this show? It’s AMAZING. In every episode, a woman recounts how she somehow made it through 9 months of gestation without ever realizing there was another person growing in her [...]
Posted in Babymaking, Couplehood, My Family Tagged anxiety, baby, Baby in a Shoe, blog, chemical pregnancy, conception, Daddy, fertility, First Response, funny, humor, I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant, mom, mommy, ovulation, pregnant, SAHM, TLC, TV, uterus 10 Comments
writer currently at home with my little girl, Viv. The twist is that while I am raising my daughter, I am also planning my wedding to her father.
When Strangers Attack!
Last week, Dave, Viv and I ate at a casual outdoor restaurant that welcomes families. Our 18-month-old is a delightful lunch companion, but she’s a bit of a slob, and new with a fork, so chunks of grilled cheese and an entire cob of corn had fallen to the patio below. I was away from [...]