Old School Posts

• In Between

  Over the long weekend, Husband and I took the girls to visit Grammy and Dad-Dad in the Philly suburbs. As always, the girls had a blast, running wild in the green grass, soaking up the sun and the doting affection of their grandparents. One night, after the girls were tucked away in bed, Husband

• Back to Blogging!

  Many of you know I'm not a big fan of the exclamation point. And yet. I tossed one in up there, in today's post title, to convey certain things after my month long break from this place. Confidence! Clarity! Enthusiasm! Energy! Well. It would be nice to feel these things and only these things

• A Decade Ago

  It wasn't our best morning. The girls were tricky. There were tears. They didn't want to eat breakfast. Big Girl said her bacon wouldn't swallow. Little Girl must be getting a third tooth because she was a weepy mess. Middle Girl threw a tantrum about her Dora umbrella, bringing her big sister t

• So Far So Good

  Just back from putting Baby down for her first nap and it seems Toddler couldn't decide which Pooh DVD she wanted to view because she shoved both into my laptop causing it to "suffer an error the DVD player cannot recover from."  (Or, more correctly, an error from which it cannot recover.)  And th

• A Laughter Hangover

  "Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand." -Mark Twain Last night, Husband and I did something we do very rarely these days: we went to the movies. We saw The Hangover, a film about a terribly ill-fated and ferociously funny bachelor party getaway to Vegas. Now, I was sure this flick wo

• Tell Me When You're Sleeping

  The last few days have been a bit heavy, their waters rippled with worry familiar and foreign. Despite the surplus of seasonal sunshine, sogginess has pervaded many moments. Smiles have been there, here, but sometimes forced. There are things, so many things, spiky and scraggly and real, bobbing

• Not Good Enough

  I am not good enough. These five words, these five terrible words, floated through my head last night. And I have no idea why really. And as quickly as they came, I banished them. My intellect took over. I told myself that there is no such thing as good enough. That Good Enough is a cruel mo

• Is Bigger Always Better?

  Last weekend, we bought our Christmas tree. It was a brutally cold afternoon and we walked a few blocks to our favorite tree stand and scanned the options. Like I am every year, I was overcome with the goodness of all that greenness and the smell of the season. And, as always, I ha

• Her Shadow

  Mommy, my shadow is following me everywhere I go! I could have said, Yes, that's the way it works. Instead, I said something else. Isn't that just amazing, babe? * Does it ever occur to you that what we say to them matters, and how we say it? That there is a keen difference between

• Little Romance Killers?

  How did you spend your Valentine's Day? Were you awash in red roses? Lingering in bed sipping vintage bubbly? Did you dine at a fine restaurant with tiny portions and crisp cloths? Did you whisper poetic words to your love? Because I didn't. I spent Valentine's Day in South Carolina with f