I really wanted this post to be funny. And, a couple of funny things have happened over the past week. But mostly just the kind of funny where it’s actually so stressful that you just laugh because the alternative is crying you have already cried four times that day. Like when you’re scrubbing dog vomit [...]
Believe me when I tell you I am the last person on earth to voluntarily stay home with my kids. I am the person that avoids “hanging out at home” at all costs and plans 72 activities an hour all weekend long until I run my family ragged because I just cannot handle sitting around [...]
Before you ask - the answer is yes, it's permanent. I let my 6-year-old dye her hair pink. And it was totally worth it and here's why. I have this distinct memory from my childhood of wanting to get my ears pierced. I was maybe 8 or 9 and I had never wanted anything so [...]
One of my least appealing qualities as a person is the number of mom groups I belong to on Facebook. Seriously it's embarrassing. I am what "people who are in a lot of mom groups on Facebook" refer to as a lurker. I pretty much never post, rarely respond, but often roll my eyes at [...]
This blog post is about 2 years overdue, but, just like I say about remembering to bathe my kids, better late than never. Back in 2016, a few months after Lucy was born I wrote a blog post. It was called The Global OB Fee Trap: How to Find and Fight It. It was a [...]
I've always said that I'm a working mom out of necessity. But not because of money. I mean, yes, because of money. But also because I would not survive 24 hours a day with my children. And neither would they. Stay-at-home moms you are something else. Truly. But just because I need time away from [...]
So I haven't written on here in forever. It's probably because I stopped going to therapy since I can't afford it (isn't America great?!) and so I'm way less self-reflective these days (which is a nice way of saying self-involved) and have been pretty much in maintenance (survival?) mode for the past 4 months. I [...]
I remember watching Aziz Ansari in Boston. He was a featured speaker at a marketing conference and I sat, at 8:30am, inside a crowded auditorium listening to him speak about modern love and feeling lucky to have found and married my husband without too much ado in the modern dating world beforehand. It hadn't taken [...]
Today my babies are small. Soft doughy thighs and beautiful round bellies. Running through the house with their shirts tucked under their chins screaming “Lala!” (Lucy’s word for belly). Their tummies pushed out with blissful pride. Today, they are enough. Strong and joyful and satisfied. Secure in their space in the world. All twenty-eight and [...]
Don't even pretend you don't know what I'm talking about. You buy all your birthday gifts at Target. I know you do because I saw you there, begging your toddler for the love of all things caffeine to SIT DOWN and stop putting Elsa sweatshirts in the cart. It's ok mama. I feel you. I [...]
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