Me, to Joe: Guess what, Joe! It’s Christmas time! You’re going to love Christmas! Joe: okay, but what is it? Me: Christmas is a beautiful, wonderful, cozy time of year in which we bake, decorate, …
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The Unwigging
Please see below for a formal list of reasons I can’t stop watching The Undoing, a very smart and quite stunning HBO limited series about an affluent Manhattan woman whose life unravels, or as one …
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Thanksgiving 2020 Pre Fixe
Menu includes: Mashed Sweet potatoes with Garlic A Baby Monitor Herb Brined Cornish Hens Stuffing with Sausage and Pecans Something to Prove to oneself about ones abilities and time management now that one is a …
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mom vibes
Lately I keep feeling very much like a Mom. Like my mouth constantly takes like baby eczema cream from the constant kissing of Joe’s face. And I have so many more chins. And I do …
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HAVE BABY, WILL TRAVEL
Having a pandemic quarantine baby means you really, REALLY don’t go anywhere. I literally can’t even fathom taking him to a Store. It took us weeks to even take the dude for a walk. So …
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Peak 2020
This picture, of a commemorative F**K 2020 Christmas ornament that I mailed my Mother in Law, that broke into pieces in transit and fell from the envelope like the world’s saddest confetti, IS 2020. OPTIMISM; …
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at 3 months
Baby will start to turn towards sound Baby will start to grasp the concept of cause and effect ‘Baby can SENSE WHEN YOU ARE PAYING ATTENTION TO HIM, AND WHEN YOU’RE NOT, so going forward, …
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WHERE IS THE DRAGON
When choosing a Wubbanub for one’s child — which is baby word for pacifier with stuffed animal attached to it, another in a long list of words I never knew and also never knew I’d …
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LITERATURE!
Maybe it’s just a phase, or maybe I’m just a bit dumber now, a bit less curious now, and maybe that’s fine, but all I really want to read before bed lately is cookbooks, in …
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New Rock Bottom
Our Zoom baby class teacher told us that once we had Joe, once he came out ready to party at 4 AM, we would discover what she called a New Rock Bottom. Like, whereas before …