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 [...]
Lately, it seems that no matter where I go, a conversation similar to the following takes place. Stranger: Aawww, look at you! When are you duuuueee? Me: March Stranger: March? Really? Oh, you’re going to be huge! (My husband just read this last line and said, “Come on, someone DID NOT say that to you!” [...]
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 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 [...]
The number three has started to take on a certain magic around here. My son will be three years old a week from Saturday. And lately, everything is more exciting to him – and, subsequently, to me too. Halloween was a kick-ass holiday. He totally “got it” this year and literally ran from house to [...]
A barista at my local Starbucks is interested in my caffeine intake. A recent conversation with said barista went something like this. Me: I’d like a tall Chai Tea Latte, please. Barista: Sure. Uh, do you know that the Chai has caffeine in it? Me: Yes. Barista: Well…you’re pregnant, right? Me: Uh, yeeeees. Barista: (Hesitantly) I [...]
