Signs that it might be time to have a Mommy Break include but are not limited to:
Laughing inappropriately when your kids get hurt, hoping your husband trips on the wet towel he left on the floor, burgeoning rage when you see that someone moved your special spoon, sensation that there are a million swarming […]

When the Morgan was 3 months old, her dad and I moved into our own place and stared slack-jawed, sat there watching helplessly while the baby chick of our relationship buckled under the strain of new parenting, job loss, childcare woes, and postpartum depression. Not long after, I decided to leave Morgan’s dad, packed up […]

Every night at bedtime, I sing to Chloe and rock her gently back and forth while singing that beautiful song from a Sound of Music, Edelweiss.
Edelweiss, edelweiss
Ev’ry morning you greet me
Small and white, clean and bright
You look happy to meet me
Blossom of Snow
May you bloom and grow
Bloom and grow forever
Edelweiss, edelweiss
Bless my homeland forever
Edelweiss, edelweiss
Small […]

Ok so let’s skip to Saturday. How can a girl go wrong? I ask you!
Follow a drunken night of laughing (the kind that makes others leave the restaurant), hugging, and special kinds of attention, then what remains but to have a transformational writing workshop experience that ends up more EST Tom Robbins than […]

Saturday morning we woke up and played with the kids and then headed out to get all fooded and beautied up. In between, we talked about husbands, and children, and art, and books and boobalicious dresses and the importance of very dark fingernail polish.
Later on, we’re meeting the ladies at the Chocolate Bar for […]