I am not a huge fan of credit cards. They make me nervous and with my already-tenuous relationship with money, they just straight-up scare me. So it may surprise people to know that my husband and I actually have 9 credit cards between us. 7 of which were opened this year alone. Now, I know […]
Oh, hi there. To be honest, I wasn’t expecting to see you here. At least with not such an alarming rate of frequency. You see, when I first had a child, I made my own baby food. We bought vegetables, spent the day steaming and pureeing and carefully jarring them. We made sure that everything […]
No matter what kind of birth you had, most moms I talk to have one thing in common. They always remember that first meal they had right after giving birth. After your body has done the seemingly impossible, most of us have one thing on our minds (after baby, of course). Gimme Food. Glorious Food. […]
Oh, man. I miss chickenpox. This may just be anecdotal, but it seems to me that since modern medicine created the chickenpox vaccine, we have been dealing with a new litany of bugs that I have zero memory of during my 80s childhood Back in my day, our parents threw us together in a room […]
I think language is a funny thing. We can often misconstrue what people mean via email or text because we can’t hear their context. But even if we can, it can still come across the wrong way. This has been extra challenging for me as a parent because I am often (not always) trying to […]
My parents never saw me coming. My sister, sure – they planned for that. What they didn’t plan for was a second child making her appearance a mere 20 months after my sister. My sister was … let’s say not the easiest baby. If I were being blunt, I would say to her face that […]
I LOVE weddings. Like almost to an insane degree. When I was in high school, I made collages from wedding magazines of things I liked – almost like a low-tech Pinterest board. And, like many people in the world, I tuned in to watch as Prince Harry wed Meghan Markle in what can only be […]
**Please note that I have no interest in disclosing the name of the daycare facility or the director. I only write this to share my experience and emotional growth as a mother.** Being a mom is a weird gig for many reasons. One of the strangest, most polarizing things for me is motherly intuition. That […]
I imagine that, once you get to know me, I’m probably a confusing person to figure out. What you see isn’t necessarily what you get. Initial judgments have often been off-base, which my friends love to tell me about after they have gotten comfortable with me. For example, I was a debutante and president of […]
When I was 14, we all had to write letters to our 18-year-old self at a school retreat. For some reason or another, I didn’t actually write the letter. I remember being in a fight with my best friend at the time, and I was sulking. And I guess I thought the activity was stupid […]
