I love it when Baby Girl and Mini-Me get to spend time with TechBoo. I get tired just watching them. So much energy and joy.
Thanks, as always, to El Ex for making this possible. Because he acts like a grown up and doesn’t disparage TechBoo (or me, for that matter) to our girls, the girls [...]
Spending some one-on-one time today and tomorrow with Mini-Me, starting wtih breakfast at our favorite crepes place. Then errands, then basketball practice, then…who knows? A day, a treasure.
“You’re super-smart and a great writer, so…”
I love conversations that start out like that. I love it even more when the remainder of the conversation isn’t someone trying to get me to write for free.
Unfortunately, that’s exactly what has happened more than a few times after I hung out my proverbial shingle and offered up [...]
I have hit the motherhood trifecta. I am a mama by birth, by adoption, and, in exactly 80 days, I will become a stepmama. So, I’m thinking about stepmotherhood a lot these days, and of course, reading books by stepmoms. Books like…
First things first: Let’s clear up any misconceptions you may have [...]
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Awakened at 1 AM by a noise, sounds like a Mack truck in my furnace room. Call TechBoo to troubleshoot. End up having to cut the power off to the furnace at the circuit breaker. Send text to plumbing/heating/contracting guy. Drag portable heater into girls’ bathroom so that they can get dressed in a [...]
I’m late with this, but only recently did I find out that the piece below would not be running as a guest-post at Psychology Today after all. Some sort of bureaucratic misunderstanding, but I still thank Meredith Resnick for the invitation.
As Christmas approaches, my daughters and I have been revisiting treasured picture books that tell [...]
So I went to El Ex’s house early yesterday evening with gifts, pug puppies (food, wee-wee pads, deodorizer, treats), and the makings of my crab dip in tow. Since we split up nearly 5 years ago, it’s been our custom to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Day together with our daughters. Now that we’ve both [...]
So tomorrow night, TechBoo and I get to celebrate another first together: Our first Chanukah party. What to bring? I’m leaning towards a bottle of wine and the jelly doughnuts (which, coincidentally, will come from the new kosher Dunkin’ Donuts that recently opened up nearby).
Saturday night, the celebrating continues with a birthday slumber party for [...]
“The reading was sublime. All mama-writers. Lots of blood, sex, body fluids, wine.”
These 3 sentences were about all I could muster on Twitter when I returned home last night from the Unblurred reading.
I was pretty okay when I left the house. By phone, Techboo had done his loving cheerleader thing. The first time I read [...]
Suffice it to say that for Techboo and me, our dance card is full between now and the new year.
After Thanksgiving (which we are hosting), we’ve already RSVPed for 2 holiday parties and a Chanukah party. I’m doing a Kwanzaa presentation in BabyGirl’s kindergarten class, complete with cornbread baking activity (Jiffy!). Plus, there’s [...]
