Category Archives: Life

Baby Hurts, Mommy Hurts

Is there anything worse than seeing your child in pain? I would sacrifice all that I hold dear–including the one pair of designer jeans that make my butt look more Kim K. than PTA–to spare Alex one minute of discomfort. … Continue reading

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Sucker!

Am I the only Mommy who is a complete and total sucker for her kids? Let’s recap the past 48-hours. Last night, I was bamboozled into hosting a “night-before-the-biggest-day-of-my-teenage-life” sleepover complete with a nervous gigglefest, last-minute wardrobe consult, new episode … Continue reading

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Squatter=SuperMommy

Oh, how I’ve missed my squatter. A squatter sits in the car with Alex while I run in to buy last-minute ingredients needed to make dinner (I can’t be bothered to make a grocery list, and if I do write … Continue reading

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Bad Luck–In Fours?

This week, my life deteriorated into a bad episode of The Jerry Springer Show. Ugly things keep rearing their heads behind the black curtain. Surprise! I left you with Alex’s poison scare. That’s enough excitement for a 24-hour period, don’t … Continue reading

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Mommy Downer

Am I the only Mommy who knows she’s a total buzzkill? Hide-and-seek under the new curtains? We don’t do that, Alex. Bust a move in the bathtub? We don’t do that, Alex. Yank the tail of the unsuspecting family cat with … Continue reading

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Mommy-and-Me Happy Hour?

“Do you ever get a break?” asked a fellow Mommy at Alex’s Gymboree class today, looking at me with sympathetic eyes as my son, once again, escaped my grasp and made a mad dash for a red ball across the … Continue reading

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Life’s a Beach

I love Grammys. Not the little gold statues awarded to musicians (I am not one of those award show junkies)…the good-as-gold Grammys awarded to overtired parents. Last weekend, we schlepped a pack and play, stroller, umbrella, float, and beach cart … Continue reading

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Mommy Brain

To borrow a line from the classic TV show Cheers, “Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name.” In college, it was a bar or two (or three); now, it’s Target, Whole Foods, and Hannaford Supermarket. Yeah, I … Continue reading

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Weather Whiners

Why do so many people in New England b*itch about the weather? Is there something in the 12 glasses of water we’re supposed to drink on a wicked hot day? Yes, it’s a scorcher. A natural sauna, if you will. … Continue reading

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Dirty Girl

This evening, Alex tipped the cat’s water dish over, emptied the contents of the only non-baby-proofed drawer in the kitchen, and made an impossible tippy-toed grab for an open bag of yogurt snacks and flung them everywhere. This occurred in … Continue reading

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