Are any of you feeling as crazed as we are here at Any Mom? Hmm…thought so. I’m making a very serious effort to slow the days a bit and enjoy tiny moments with my tiny ones. That’s what the holidays are really all about, right?  That said, it always amazes me that the smallest things I do make the [...]

I don’t think it’s ever too early to start grooming little boys into kind-hearted, well-intentioned men. In fact, I would argue that you MUST start early. So, here is the checklist that I’m working from right now…please feel free to add to it…I can use all the help I can get… 1. Pick up after [...]

Back in the late 90s, when I worked full-time at a very corporate corporation, senior management (or the hoo-ha’s as I liked to call them) made us attend a very corporate, feel-good session to make us work better as a team (in theory). The brainwashing started with a ridiculous number of cheesy catch-phrases and ended [...]

When I get a night out on my own, the gust of air generated from me hightailing out the door can power a small town. But at the end of the night, the wind in my sails is gone and I develop a twitch in my left eye wondering what’s waiting for me on the [...]

I was the woman who was so big at nine months pregnant, that people stopped me in public to let me know just how gargantuan I was, in case I had somehow forgotten. And yes, I was the woman in the maternity ward who people stopped by to see – “the one who delivered the [...]

From the time I started high school, I dreaded the day I would have to dissect a frog in biology class. It seemed disrespectful and, quite frankly, positively disgusting, to slice open and pick around the innards of a frog. Twenty years later, I never dreamed I would feel a certain kinship with that frog. [...]

After reading Mommy Confessions Michelle Wolfson’s lists of “Things I Could Do Before I Had Kids That I Can’t Do Now” and “Things I Can Do Now That I Couldn’t Do Before I Became a Mom”, I decided to take her up on her invitation and create my own. So here they are… Things I [...]

My son had his first legitimate beef with me last weekend. Don’t get me wrong, he has boldly proclaimed, “I’m mad”, when I’ve given him a timeout or told him he couldn’t watch TV, but this was the first time that he had a real case against me. My husband had taken him to his [...]

Last week, a fact really hit home for me – I’m about to have another baby. Of course, I’ve known this for quite some time – roughly seven months now, but the reality of it hit me like a ton of bricks as I lay in a hospital bed hooked up to a fetal monitor [...]

I admit that one of the bigger concerns my husband and I had when deciding to start a family was what our little bundle of joy would do to our social life. Don’t get me wrong; our dance cards were never jam-packed every weekend. What I’m talking about is the simple act of sitting across [...]