‘‘Twas the Night before Thanksgiving And all through John and Jacy’s apartment Not a creature was stirring Except for my exorcist puking into the guest bathroom toilet, an errant smoothie perhaps? And puke I kept …
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Pukesgiving
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Mrs. Foster-Keddie
Morrison surprised me (and Joe!) with a birthday trip Santa Barbara. I don’t know what was the best part, the fact that he planned it all and packed Joe’s things so I literally didn’t have …
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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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Back to Work
Turn off your Away Message Shut your Office Door Listen for the sound of your kid through that Door Think about your kid, and wonder if that thing they did the other day was normal, …
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Mom and Dad’s Room
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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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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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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BOOP
Me, when child was theoretical: I’m not going to infantilize my baby, I’m going to speak to him like an adult. I’ll read Shakespeare and Murakami aloud and we’ll listen to classical music and his …
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BUTT TRUTH
I just caught a glimpse of the actual size of my butt in a mirror, like an actual mirror, not a mirror in which I control my image of myself, and it cast great doubt …
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MAKEOVER SHOWWW
HI! Do you happen to notice that something is perhaps Different, or New? After 13 years of blogging, I finally asked a smart computer person to come over and a.) Back up my blog so …