In light of the ailing economy and a general tendency to overspend on gift giving, I cut back on my Christmas spending this year. Still, my budget mounted to over a grand. Now, for some of you, spending one thousand dollars on Christmas gifts may be totally within the realm of reasonable spending. But for [...]

I’m aging and it’s happening faster than I expected. First it was subtle, like the increasingly obvious silence between me and my rotating batch of hairdressers whom I suddenly had nothing in common with. Where we used to exchange stories of our similar weekend adventures, my attempt at discussing the newest offering from Disney Channel [...]

Note to self: Do not complain about the hardships of being a parent to childless friends.

I did just that recently, telling BeautifulSuccessfulThinFriend about my son’s need to interact with me every waking minute.

“Well, you wanted him,” she said unfeelingly.

Of course I wanted him. I also wanted braces, but that doesn’t mean I have to enjoy everything about them.

Goodness knows I’ve sat through enough of her venting about

On my nightstand sit two books – Twilight and Waiting for Birdy. One is the star-crossed romance between a vampire and a mortal; the other is a personal memoir of a “year of frantic tedium, neurotic angst, and the wild magic of growing a family”. (Book review on the latter to come soon.) Two vastly [...]

I absolutely love this song! It’s everything a mom says in a day condensed into 2 1/2 minutes and set to music (William Tell Overture). One phrase I find myself saying a lot lately is, “Because I said so.” I never thought I would resort to this conversation stopper. I always figured I’d explain lovingly [...]

I spent a couple hours last night staring at my belly. At first in utter amazement that it is so full and round – I think it’s much bigger now than it was at this point with my first – and I’m wondering how much bigger it could possibly get. Then I sat back and [...]

Unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard about the hullabaloo over Motrin’s latest ad. Motrin tried to tap into the mom community by showing an ad about a mom who wears her baby in a sling but has back pain and needs Motrin for pain relief. [...]