Remember how when you’re little, there is Mom and Dad’s room, and the bed is as big as the World, it’s too high for you to crawl onto so you must be lifted onto it, …
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Mom and Dad’s Room
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JOE 2020
A HISTORIC DAY. A WOMAN OF COLOR in the White House, a reason to finally exhale, the welcoming of hopefully 4 years of palate cleansing calm, gentle steps towards a shared Middle. FIRST THINGS FIRST: …
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(don’t) sleep
What is the word for when all you want is your kid to go to sleep because you need ten minutes to pee and try and get the spit-up stain off the couch, and when …
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HEY, LOOK OVER HERE
HEY LOOK AT THESE LIME TORTILLA CHIPS I MADE FROM SCRATCH! It’s Election Day, but instead of ruminating on that: I read somewhere the other day, Somewhere? The where is now lost in the Soup …
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Gnome Sweet Gnome
I’ve never been too big on Halloween, but I’m not gonna sleep on an opportunity to put a baby in a costume. So for Joe’s first Halloween, we tapped into his whimsical, discerning nature and …
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I’m Hot
In my pockets of narrow sleep window between baby feeding sleeps, I have been having THE MOST AMAZINGLY WEIRD DREAMS, like last night I dreamt I was driving around in a giant cardboard box and …
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VOTER FRAUD
IT’S REAL. FINALLY, SOME PROOF. It’s not the people voting twice we have to worry about, nor the Zombies, it is the BABIES. They’re crawling to the booths in vast numbers, demanding more bright and …
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Bedtime Routine
All of the blogs and books recommend that you establish a bedtime routine for your kid, that soothes them, winds them down, and lets them know that sleep is coming. Given that we are highly …
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Casseroll
Since Joe, the only TV I want to watch are reality baking show competitions in which no one gets murdered and there are no dark philosophical questions posed, and all I want to make / …
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10.22.16
What else can I say about that day that hasn’t already been said? I’ll love this day forever…… Long past when we’re dead.