Old School Posts

• Mommy Needs A Margarita

  The girls and I have been on our own for 34 hours and 24 minutes.  But who's counting? Nanny had a much-deserved day off yesterday and Husband made a quick trip to Bucknell to receive an alumni award. This girl time has had some predictable and unpredictable effects on me: First, the predicta

• Missing an Ex

  Dear Mr. BigLaw, How are you these days? We haven't seen each other or spoken in a while, but I do hear about you from time to time. From friends and newspapers. Despite the recession and everything else, it sounds like you are surviving. I know this letter is foolish. It will likely be lost i

• Mommy Got A Metrocard

  Something crazy happened yesterday. I was excused from jury duty for the day and wandered aimlessly in the drizzle looking for an empty taxi. Tough feat at 5pm. And then I found one.  And one of the good van ones. Arm up. He stopped. The light was about to change, so I did that half-jog thing and m

• Before Goodness & White Chocolate

  Toddler and I went on a date last week. She had been sick the night before with a whopping 104 fever, but miraculously woke up the next morning with no fever at all. To be safe, I kept her home from school. I emailed her Preschool teacher and said she'd be home that day and her teacher reminded me

• Not the Plan

  Yesterday was a marathon day. I took the big girls to two back-to-back birthday parties downtown while Husband hung here with the tiny one. We reunited in the early evening at Mom's as we do every Sunday. Once home, and once the trio were tucked in, Husband and I retreated to the couch with our shak

• On Being Shallow

  There's nothing wrong with being shallow as long as you're insightful about it. Dennis Miller You know what? I think I agree with this. We can't possibly be deep all the time. Nor would we want to be. I think we should embrace the shallow waters of our world, splash around in them a little. And

• My Terrible Dream

  When I am pregnant, I tend to have very vivid dreams. In general, I enjoy this. Once, when I was pregnant with Baby, I spent my slumber designing a line of barely-there, skin-toned sandals. I woke up and jotted down the details of said sandals. Who knows? One day, I might just invent and patent

• My Girls

  I admit it: Yesterday's post was a bit heavy. And that makes sense. Its words fell from a heavy place. I didn't mean to be overly dramatic, or cryptic, or alarming. I just meant to say that I went through something big, and hard. That I stepped out of my own mind and acted. That I helped someone

• I Should Be Recalled

  This morning Husband retrieved our girls from their beds and got the morning started. I slept in. Until 7:30. Not super late. But late on Parent Planet. When I did get out of bed, I was moving slowly. But smiling. As a few fine folks in the Twittersphere already know, I had a big night out last

• My First Book Review EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  Apologies for the capital letters. And for the exclamation points. I am not really an all-caps-and-exclamation-points kind of gal. Not until yesterday. Yesterday was a really big day for me. An important one. And I can't stop smiling. I race to write these words for fear that something