My husband was just diagnosed with high blood pressure. In addition, some blood work apparently came back alarmingly high, which requires a return trip to the doctor this Friday. This morning, as I bent to lift Dom from his crib, I pulled a muscle in...
Or at least he thinks so. It must be the funniest joke in the world, because why else would he use it 4 or 500 times a day? Are you ready to hear it? Ok, here it goes: “No, you are!” Yes! Ha ha. Get’s me every time. This joke can be...
I have developed a theory – a theory about what turns normal young men and women into grumpy senior citizens who sit around throwing back shots of Metamucil and complaining about how the world is going to heck in a hand basket and hasn’t been...
These days, Dom likes to hang with the big kids. We just spent the weekend in Delaware visiting my brother, his fiancée, and her two children, four or five years older than Dom. They are the most polite, well-behaved children I have ever met, and...
My second favorite subject these days, after The Bees, is food. Since CB travels every week I frequently eat alone at home so nothing makes me happier than discovering a new take-out item or something easy to cook at home. I think I’ve mentioned...
Ok, let’s just begin with the important stuff. I am a Bond fan. Ever since I first saw that cool looking white sports car drive off the dock into the ocean and turn in to a submarine, I’ve been hooked. I mean, who wouldn’t be? That car...
Hoo Boy! I have just read the article to end all articles. It’s about a state I dearly love. A state that is often unfairly maligned (sometimes by me). A state that is so fat…. (how fat is it?) It’s so fat that when it bends over, we...
So now that we have one we're part of this club. This exclusive group which, when we were single and/or had no child we had no interest in joining anyway. But here we are, and here comes the wave of holidays again, the parties, the family gatherings...
If you have never visited a Build-a-Bear Workshop , consider yourself lucky. Then avoid malls whenever you have a munchkin in tow. For if they see a Build-a-Bear Workshop while you are out shopping, it is all over. You will be dragged over to the display...
We were up in Vermont a couple of years back and I fell in love with the state. It was beautiful and so ridiculously quaint that you wanted to start whittling something the moment you crossed the state line. We had a lovely time traveling the winding...
When I was a kid, there were several games that I liked – Chutes and Ladders, Candyland, Connect Four, and Memory are the games that immediately come to mind. But the game that I loved most of all – the one that I immediately went for when...
There is a lot of focus in our society on size: SUVs, skyscrapers, stretch limos, houses. On some base level, I think that we all somewhat succumb to the bigger is better model of living, whether this is in portions at Applebees, the size of our bank...
No parent likes to admit her child is behind developmentally. While I’ve spent months crowing about The Bees’ physical agility I have been noticeably subdued on the topic of speaking. It's not that she hasn't been talking. Vying for...
Dom is a loving, curious, outgoing boy who runs up to strangers, chattering away. Since I am a paranoid Mommy, that makes me more than a little nervous, but anyway… He loves to meet people, talk to them, and ask them questions. So, imagine my surprise...
11:00 Boop… Beep… Boop… Beep 11:03 The setting: an open staircase. A brass chandelier hangs perilously low on a metal chain. At times you could almost reach out and touch it. 11:07 A cabal of 6 and 7 year olds has begun to gather...