Dear Me,
This letter may freak you out, seeing as it’s from me - you, whatever - in the future but there’s something you should be prepared for. You don’t know it yet, but you’re pregnant. That’s right; you’re going to have a baby. Now, don’t go and freak out, it’s not like you weren’t planning […]

Goddess of Snark grant me the serenityto accept the peeps I cannot change; the cleverness to change the things I am not supposed to change;and wisdom to embrace the differences between myself and the Other Mommies .
Living one hour at a time; Enjoying one glass of wine at a time; Accepting hardships as […]

For me, the thin line between contentment & crankiness is linearly correlated with the thin line between sleeping & not-sleeping.  The past week, my kids have tag-teamed my hubs and I, insuring that any wisp of REM sleep was interrupted with a call for water, new covers, a story, or anything at all in between.  […]

While it’s fairly obvious to me that I need to work to survive emotionally, intellectually, and economically, I have learned to live with a deep-seated ambivalence about the whole Career Mommy endeavor (less like "ambivalence", more like being ripped apart by two wild boars running in opposite directions).  A low, dull ache of longing, freedom, […]

When I came home from work today, the kids were in their jammies cuddled in front of the fireplace playing with their new stuffed cats "Butter" & "Sugar."  Zander ran in from the living room to greet me with his playmate Fiona (Babysitter’s daughter) in tow smiling and calling out "MAMA! MAMA!"  Babysitter was sitting […]