Today I took the kid to her first day of school. Hard to believe, but she started third grade today. THIRD. MOTHERFUCKING. GRADE. I’m sorely tempted to launch into the expected parental cliches here about how time flies, and how they grow up so fast, and OMG MY BABY! – but I’m not going to. … CONTINUE READING »
What’s Your Healthy Living Limit?
08/30/2011
Although I know that the most satisfying blog posts (and therapy sessions) are ones in which you blame your parents for all of the horrific ways they failed you, I’m going to tell you about something my parents did that I think was pretty spot on. I mean, besides that whole “Alien costume as disciplinary … CONTINUE READING »
Have More Fun Getting Dressed For Work (Without Looking Like A Working Girl)
08/29/2011
Oh, to be a Mexican wrestler! It is perhaps the only vocation that provides an automatic answer to the question, “What should I wear to work today?” While I get a huge kick out of getting dressed in the morning, I am overweight, over 30, and overworked; deciding what will make me feel and look … CONTINUE READING »
My Home Alone Paranoid Fears
08/26/2011
My husband and son just recently came back from a nearly week-long trip to New York City. I missed them, of course, but was desperately in need of some time to myself. I spent my “week off” from being a wife and mom sprawled all over my bed, eating the foods that only I like … CONTINUE READING »
How Is A Tomboy Supposed To Raise A Princess?
08/25/2011
There is a constant struggle between me and my oldest daughter. She is a perfect carbon copy of a miniature me in appearance, but our personalities are either much too similar or too different. I can’t decide which. We’re stubborn, which I don’t think of as a bad thing with me. I just know what … CONTINUE READING »
