me, after watching Morrison eat a giant chicken parmesan sub, while I eat carrots: Me: I’ve gained a few pounds back, can you tell? Morrison:….I think you look great Me: so you can tell? Morrison: …
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can you tell
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resolutions
wash face drink water write things on family calendar on the kitchen fridge respond to texts check on friends smell children bathe them smell them again listen to husband without a wandering mind take a …
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white jesus
Walking home from the park, Joe spots a nativity scene. Joe: OOOOH, LOOK MOM! A NATIVITY SCENE! But I don’t see Jesus! Me: He’s right there, honey. He’s the baby in the manger. Joe: That’s …
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goodbye, hello
The Notebook closed on Broadway last weekend, after a ten month run, after a 7 year birth. There’s things we tell ourselves, and the things people tell us, to make us all feel better, this …
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toilet paper
From 2004-2006, my friend Elizabeth and I shared a TINY (TINY TINY) apartment in the west village. We were both in grad school, we had a pet mouse and roasted a lot of broccoli and …
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I am a good mom
Joe doesn’t want to go to school, he wants to stay home and play. I tell him if he puts his socks on, we can go to target later and he can get a Car. …
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arts and crafts
After last years a Very Covid Thanksgiving I didn’t want to cook a single thing this year or preheat a single oven or shove a single leftover into Tupperware. So we escaped to an EXTREMELY …
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baketution
There’s a lot of things I don’t know and am not good at, like there are just too many to list (taxes, basic home maintenance, how to keep a plant alive) but let’s celebrate what …
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two kids, one tunnel
Bobbie wants to do whatever Joe is doing, wants to play with whatever he’s playing with. She wants to play with all of his toys, but Joe doesn’t want her to play with the Special …
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the sweater
I’m on the precipice of perhaps the biggest thing that’s happened in my career (which I must be vague about as it’s not official) and in response, instead of prepping emotionally and logistically for my …