Me to Joe, after a glass of wine on a fairly empty stomach, while watching his tiny body move, which is both tiny but also big: ‘Joe, I grew you in my body, isn’t that …
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Can you move
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flying with two kids
Let’s check all our bags except for the bag that will have most of their things, some things will go in a carry-on bag but then some will go in their checked bags, there will …
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Physical Therapy
If you’re finding it hard to find time to do your Physical Therapy, it’s possible to just do it on the floor next to your baby, as she’s sort of doing a PT of her …
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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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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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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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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, …
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almond butter everywhere
I used to go to parties, or Party? and now I scrub almond butter off of plates that have already been through the dishwasher. I went to Prague once and bought a necklace on Charles …