Joe has started learning and saying his ABC’s and 123’s and we are so proud, we barely fit through doors anymore. ONE, TWO, TEN, NINE, he counts, and we’re calling Columbia to see how early …
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One, Two, Ten, Nine
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Happy anniversary
I think the longer you’ve been married, the further your anniversary day gets from anything moderately celebratory. A scene from this morning: Husband: Did you feed the cat? Wife: No, I’m getting Joe his waffle …
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the toddler equation
I remember reading this before we had Joe and it is now abundantly true: Toddlers are VERY VERY ABSURDLY CUTE and this cuteness is EXACTLY EQUIVALENT to how VERY VERY ANNOYING they are. Joe’s brain, …
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world’s most humble parents
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41st-ist
Happy happy birthday to my wonderful husband, who’s having the 41st-iest birthday there ever was, in a corporate apartment for his wife’s job, filming an audition for his own, letting his toddler take most of …
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bye bye mama
Me to Joe: okay my friend, Mom and Dad both have to work, but we love you so much and we’re going to take care of you, you’re going to be okay, are you okay? …
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voice to text
My new favorite thing is when your phone is recording a voice memo and you don’t know it and the product is a gorgeous, absurdist monologue that contains little pieces of your life. Buried in …
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to all the young women
For the last month and some change, I’ve been staying at corporate apartments in buildings in Chicago that are filled with literal Young Urban Professionals. Their gyms are teeming with young beautiful women and I …
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Morrison and I have made a short film that got into TriBeCa and also a FULLY TWO YEAR OLD PERSON but this cake that we assembled while Joe was taking his birthday nap IS OUR …
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six months
Here I am, hemming and hawing over being away from Mo and Joe for TWO WEEKS, making theater, meanwhile my little brother Tim deployed last night to Japan, for SIX ENTIRE MONTHS away from his …