Let's just get a couple of things straight right now.
1. Wake up time is 7am. Not 5:55. Not 6:15. Not 6:38. 7. 7 goddammit.
Before 7? There will be no banging on shit or yelling or stampeding up and down the stairs like a herd of rhinoceri. Before 7? My time. After 7? I've had my coffee ...
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It's the American way, right? The old Protestant work ethic that has hemorrhaged it's way into the lives of us 99 percenters?
But, acknowledgement, recognition, kudos for a job well done...it's nice to hear, isn't it?
I expect perfection from myself (I'd be a pretty shitty Type A otherwise), but I must say I'm always pleasantly surprised ...
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Him: Mommy, why do people smoke?
(Damn you, too-cool-for-school hipster Williamsburg transplants. Must you move to Park Slope? Must you walk our way? I'm just trying to get my kids to school here...)
Me: Because they are addicted to a chemical called nicotine. You know how sometimes you feel like you really need ice cream?
(Ice cream has ...
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Last year, I worked 24 hours a week. I dropped my kids at school at 7, picked them up at 3, hung out with them every afternoon, gave them dinner and baths and then put them to bed at 7:30. Wednesdays, I was with them all day.
This year, I work 45 hours a week. I ...
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My boys are four and six. They are 25 months apart. My six year old is huge. My four year old is small. My six year old is in a public kindergarten. My four year old is in a private daycare. My four year old wants to be my six year old. My six year ...
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