by Amy | Apr 9, 2020 | My Family, Parenthood, Siblings
Evite just contacted everyone in my daughter’s preschool class to remind them about her 5th birthday party. Oops. Looks like amid all the homeschooling, short order cooking, Zoom meetings and toilet paper hoarding, I forgot to cancel the event. Not only had we already...
by Amy | Sep 18, 2018 | List, My Family, Parenthood
Remember before kids, when you’d shove a credit card, cell phone and lip gloss into a tiny clutch that matched your outfit and head out on the town? Those were the days. Now that you’re a mom, chances are your purse is more like Mary Poppins’ magic...
by Amy | Mar 6, 2017 | My Family, Raising Girls, Vanity
Throughout grade school, I was the second shortest kid in my class. The shortest kid was an actual little person, yet I remember her being way more confident in her stature than I was. I hated being short. It made me feel powerless and insignificant. I hated being at...
by Amy | Dec 5, 2016 | My Family, Parenthood
My husband and I have a long-standing disagreement: I’m madly in love with babies. He wishes our kids could be born at 2-years-old. Maybe it’s a woman thing, but how can anyone not be obsessed with babies? Sniffing their fuzzy duckling heads while they snuggle...
by Amy | May 30, 2016 | My Family, Yummy
Until recently, I would have told you that my most unusual job experience was working as a street vendor on Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, selling tie-dyed t-shirts from a shop called The Wizard of Odd that said things like, “When the going gets tough, the tough...
