Category Archives: small children

The Work Life Conundrum

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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For Your Infirm-ation

I broke my ankle.  On vacation.  In Costa Rica. Sigh. Ok.  I'm making it sound a lot worse than it is.  It's sprained pretty badly and fractured just a little bit.  Thankfully, I got an awesome airboot for my troubles.  (Now I know what astronauts feel ...

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Crap Mornings

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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To My Fake Children (because my real ones wouldn’t need this letter):

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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Light-hearted Morning Chit Chat with a Six Year Old

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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