This is how I totally rock my mom-itude.
1. "Kids, PLEASE stop playing and laughing together so loudly. I'm trying to concentrate on Facebook."
2. "Mommy, is that ice cream?"
"Uh huh."
"Can we have some?"
"Ooof. I just finished off the pint. You snooze you lose, little dudes."
3. "Hey, 6 year old, can you pour me a glass of ...
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I am truly fortunate in that I have a job that I love. I don't know many people who can say the same. Hell, most of the country is psyched to have a job at all. But I've been lucky. Though I've changed jobs several times since I graduated from college, I've always enjoyed my ...
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Last June, when I appeared on The Gayle King Show, Gayle randomly asked me my thoughts on The Mommy Wars. She explained that back when she was working and raising her two kids, there was a lot of tension between moms who worked and moms who stayed home. As a mom who has been on ...
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My family is a bunch a early risers. (Excluding myself, of course.) But my four year old is like a fucking rooster. "What? It's daylight? I better start talking to my animals and singing songs in foreign tongues immediately!" And thus, begins our day.
We are in Costa Rica. It is awesome. Volcanoes, macaws, super-sized banana ...
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Crap mornings shoot my day. I wish my kids would just fucking do what I ask them to do the first time I ask them to do it. I swear, that alone would procure a lifetime's supply rainbows and butterflies. But after I've repeated the words "brush your teeth" 15 times, I'm bound to lose ...
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