me: *hurts back for 900th time* Internet: alternate between ice and heat, as needed. Mom: ice it! Physical therapist: put heat on it! Massage therapist: Ice sometimes, but also stretch! Physical therapist: DON’T STRETCH Internet: …
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people inside
For the past nearly two years, we’ve been playing cars with Joe. There are little cars and big cars. The cars go on picnics, get in traffic jams, open Christmas presents, bake bread, go to …
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things I miss
I left This is Us in 2019 because I’d been working in writer’s rooms for six straight years, I was exhausted by the production schedule and I longed to be at home with my feelings …
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five marshmallows
I spent way too much of my childless life NOT going to museums and learning new things, but now with him, I get to go to museums, and Learn. When he wakes up, he wants …
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plz like and subscribe
I’m taking an Instagram break for the summer (too many ads and mindless scrollings) and I never look at Facebook unless it’s my birthday or someone passes away, and I’ve never been a tweeter, so …
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mom bag
Contents, for our first road trip as a family of four: Baby toys A hat Advil, melatonin A sack of half eaten bars of dark chocolate Toddler pouch Makeup bag, tampons, perfume, assorted coins covered …
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gummy bears
Joe is almost 3. When he pees in the toilet, he gets to pick out one gummy bear. If he poops in the toilet (which is never?) he gets 2. Good job. Joe is 12 …
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birthday
I turned 41 yesterday, an age which my friend Alina aptly described as ‘you’re basically too old to be cute or appealing and too young to have lived an interesting life or wisdom…it’s a no …
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we should help them
Joe spots a (presumably) homeless person sleeping on a bus station bench as we drive by. Joe: What happened to THAT guy? Me: (measured, carefully): He’s sleeping, because he’s tired. Joe: Why? Me: Because his …
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mom guilt
Maybe you’re a man, specifically a Dad man, and you’re reading this blog wondering, what is like to be a Woman, specifically a Mother? It’s so so wonderful, and it hurts, but most of all, …