That wrinkle will kill your baby.
I was recently at a work function (I am currently on maternity leave) sitting around a table with a few co-workers, most of whom have babies or kids under two. A friend and other co-worker is expecting...
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The Circle of Cute
I spent most of my 20s responding, when asked about babies, that I would have kids *just* after I lost my figure, so I could blame it on them. And that's pretty much the plan we followed - my daughter...
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Summertime
The baby at our house is almost five months old now. He's sleeping better, so I can put him down for a nap and wander away to work on the computer for an hour or two until I hear him fussing.There's...
View ArticleThe world is a dirty, dirty place...
A few years before kids came along, my roommate happened to be one of my good friends. This particular friend lived with "CDO"--which as the joke she told goes, is OCD, only in alphabetical order...
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Morality for Toddlers
Yesterday I found myself trying to explain Spiderman's Law to my nearly-2 year old daughter Luna. It's harder than you think, breaking down the concept for a toddler....I couldn't manage it. I...
View ArticleNap planning
A friend of mine (who happens to have four children) commented lately that she wished kids would tell you how long they were going to nap, when they went down. Thirty minutes? Good, put up your feet...
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Can I Fit in a Bouncy Castle?
My daughter, Luna, is turning 2 in 1 month. I decided that we should have a birthday party - with other kids and their parents - in the park, and started planning a couple of weeks ago.Now I know a 2...
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who is this guy Ty Malone? he sounds fun.
So I find the creation of spreadsheets soothing. There's something about the neat columns and the formulae that helps me believe, briefly, that anything exists but chaos. It's been a rough few days,...
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Article 16
I'm home all day, every day. I have a teenager. I currently do not work. I am able bodied and my mental health is at about a solid functional 70%. And here's a quick glimpse into my apartment, as of...
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Winning the Mommy Wars
I often have a secret 'theme' for my life. It's a little catchphrase that really only means something to me; it helps to keep me focused on what's important to me at the time. It will stick with me...
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The first skirmish
After writing my brave manifesto last Sunday, I lay awake that night trying to figure out what my first move should be. The next day bright and early, I stood at the foot of Mr. Baby's crib, saying...
View ArticleThe Cake Is A Lie
I spent the last two weeks of the summer waiting not-so-patiently for school to start again and for things to get back to normal. I concocted elaborate daydreams about family dinners where my family...
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Food Waste
For the first month or so on solid food, Luna couldn't get enough of it. She ate the food we gave her messily but with gusto, and often bugged us for more. The first couple of months on finger-foods...
View ArticleWhy I eat @ trashy fastfood joints
If you're a parent, and you go out to eat with your younglings, you probably understand me a little already. If you have a baby or toddler and you're still going to the nice sit-down thai restaurant...
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A Little Time-Change Miracle
Everyone seems to love to talk about the extra hour of sleep you get when the clock goes back in the fall. I don't know why, because there are plenty of people with little kids in the world, and those...
View ArticleMommy Wars: Swim Win
I owe you a couple of updates on the mommy wars, which are held up by a lack of pictures. I decided to go ahead and trust that my audience doesn't need shiny stuff to keep reading.I took the baby to...
View ArticleArticle 8
Some of you have little people, and you are parenting them in a way that makes me glad I can't remember 1997-2000 clearly. You're doing such an awesome job, and I tip my hat to you.But most of you...
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Attack of the Mombies
I was talking to my husband this morning - well, whining at him, really - about how erratic the childrens' sleep schedules are, how much energy they require, how tired I always am. We've been watching...
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Bad Things Chicks Do No. 1
So I have been fighting the urge to take and post a photo of the tag of my pants. Because I can't remember when I was last this size. Because somehow this unintentional decrease in mass has made me...
View ArticleThe scarlet M
So I'm a Mom, I get it. The capital M has been affixed with a makeshift paste of oatmeal, mashed banana, and squished-to-death frenchfries. I should go cut my hair into a shoulder-length bob (Just...
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