I think bears have it right. Carb-load like crazy then find a comfy cave to sleep off the gray days and bitter cold nights of winter. My own desire to hunker down, curl up and stay cozy at home all started during the kids’ holiday break from school. Sure playing in the snow was fun [...]
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 [...]
Let me lay this out for you…my grocery cart does not overflow with organically grown vegetables. In fact, I defy you to find a single, solitary leafy green in there. Oh sure, I waltz through the produce department merrily tossing juicy apples or bright yellow bananas into the mix on a weekly basis, but that’s [...]
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 was a kid, birthday parties consisted of a bunch of friends dropped off at your house where you ran around like crazy and played stupid games like pin the tail on the donkey. You had ice cream and a dry cake your mom made, you opened presents at the party in front of [...]
Last night at bedtime my son wanted to give me a kiss on the lips. He grabbed my face and dove in, lips pursed, a maniacal expression on his face. “No way!” I screeched in alarm, turning my face away and pinning down his octopus hands. “Why not, mommy?” He gave me his best Cute [...]
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 [...]
I’d really like a report card. I’d love a quarterly review. I’d do almost anything for a tiny bit of FEEDBACK. I just want someone with a little authority to tell me if I am, or if I am not, doing a good job as a mom. And my husband doesn’t count. As soon as [...]
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 [...]
