Over at Transatlantic Blonde's site, we are all talking about feminism and fashion today. I must confess to being a bit ambivalent on this topic. For the sake of brevity, I'll give you all a quick breakdown:
On the good side:
I mostly see fashion as a form of self-expression. One that is (often) used to make [...]
I am not writing this post because my questions are unique. Hardly. In fact, maybe I write about them here because they are universal. I don't know. But I write nevertheless. You tell me if they are universal.
The tug between the duties of parenthood, wifedom (sort of like fiefdom, one can guess?), and personhood seem [...]
A brief peek into a conversation this morning:
Daughter: "Mommy, you look so pretty today!"
Me: "Thank you sweetheart, that is very sweet of you to say."
Daughter: "Daddy thinks you're pretty too!"
Me: "AWWWWWW… I love you both so much!"
Daughter (yelling to the other room): "Daddy, can I have my quarter now?"
True story. My life is glamorous.
I [...]
The first and most obvious one is ending the titles of posts with a preposition. Beyond that, here goes:
Laundry – seriously.. sometimes a load of laundry gets washed 2 or 3 times because I simply forget about it and it starts to get a bit stinky. Happens ALL THE TIME.
Hiding my fear of spiders from [...]
Ok, so in the grand scheme of things, this is not the most earth-shattering question ever. But still… when do you stop calling your baby a ‘baby’? My son is 18 months-old. He technically IS the baby since he is the youngest and I won’t be having any more children. But he far from a [...]
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I love to sneak in on my 18 month-old son while he is waking up from nap. He lays there and ‘talks’ to things in his room, plays with his stuffed giraffe, and just generally looks freakin’ adorable. So when I heard him waking up this afternoon, I quietly went in to watch him. Not [...]
When I was pregnant with my second child, I lost my stomach for television. I couldn’t watch news (too depressing), drama (too violent, too sappy), politics (too tense), sports (too much time), reality TV (too stupid), or comedy (well, not completely, but mostly). What did I watch? Documentaries. I became a HUGE fan of the [...]
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I should start by saying that my daughter is a drama queen. No. Seriously. She could be in the Drama Club if they allowed pre-schoolers. That fact may only be important to me in the following story, but I still thought you would like to have that information.
So after one loooooooonnnngggg day, I was trying [...]
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I’ve been away from blog for a minute .. vacationing. Vacation is always an illuminating view into life as we live it, don’t you think? I find that I get myself all stressed out trying to remember every little to-do before, during, and after vacation that I forget … well … that vacation is VACATION [...]
So, I try to be a green person (not the Kermit the frog type), but sometimes life has a way of pushing back. True story:
My daughter is just getting through potty training. I still go in and check on her occasionally to make sure that she has not used an entire roll of toilet paper [...]
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