Oh, internet. Dare I say this out loud? (I mean, writing a blog post about something is just like saying it out loud, right?) I'm feeling better. Just three months ago I would not have contemplated dancing, riding a scooter, walking Kyle to school, riding my bike, … [Read more...]
Massacre in the Kitchen
Not long ago, Kyle declared an open-ended moratorium on vegetables. All vegetables. Even cucumbers, the last vegetable he would actually eat. We even grew them in our garden this summer. With our own Stewart's two hands. After a series of heated dinnertime battles that … [Read more...]
Forty Is the New Forty
When my husband turned 50 I wondered if he would go through a mid-life crisis. I asked him about it. He said that he wished he had accomplished more by now, and I was offended, at first. I thought about me and our children. Aren't we accomplishments enough? This morning … [Read more...]
Who Am I Again? Motherhood and Identity
This was an original post for LA Moms Blog on April 8, 2009. SV Moms Group was acquired by Technorati so I post my archives here on Fridays. Something is happening to me, something nobody warned me about. Or maybe they did, but I wasn't paying attention. My little boys … [Read more...]
Crowdsourcing Dinner
It's weird how I'm all about food lately. I'm not a foodie. I dread the dinner routine. But maybe that's what makes this topic popular - that universal issue that everyone has every now and then What the heck am I gonna make for dinner? In this episode of Mom's the Word on … [Read more...]