It’s finally spring! Flowers bursting into color, sun shining, a toad in my sprinkler system, and…because the trees are budding, I can’t breathe. I’ve actually had to resort to my hate-able rescue inhaler, copped my Singulair from the doctor, and…as usual…I have a gig. And I’m in a panic, hoping I will be able to [...]
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You Take My Breath Away
Posted in Child rearing, Manners, Spring cleaning, allergies, asthma, family, husbands, marriage, pets, procrastinationg, singing, tagged animal dander, cherry trees, cleaning person, clutter, crocuses, dust mites, flowers, forsythia, gigs, honey do list, inhaler, lilacs, Mucinex, mud season, neti, New England, reorganize, singing, Singulair, snowdrops, spring, spring cleaning bug, stuff, tea, tidy, toys, untidy on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kardashian Habit
Posted in Child rearing, Kardashian, Reality TV, body image, diet, family, weight, tagged addiction, Brett Michaels, Bruge Jenner, cancer, cellulite, dancing with the stars, death, divorce, DVR, DWI, fans, grave, Kardashian, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, media, motherhood, Nicole Brown Simpson, nude modeling, OJ, PETA, Real Housewives of Orange County, Reality TV, Rock of Love, Santa, sharing the TV, thighs, toys, TV on March 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I would say I am not addictive by nature. I would also say that motherhood has completely shredded my attention span to the point where I can’t sit still during an entire program. I watch Dancing With the Stars on my DVR when I can, and then I can get up and dance with my [...]
Fat Kids
Posted in Child rearing, body image, diet, family, weight on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I must have watched the movie “Stand By Me” at least 20 times as a teenager. Coming of age movie, Stephen King, River Phoenix, Corey Feldman, Jerry O’ Connell as the “fat kid” (now grown up and married to a Victoria’s Secret model). It came on TV the other day…the leech part. I watched, and [...]
LOUD
Posted in Child rearing, family, husbands, marriage, sleep deprivation, tagged bassists, bed, big houses, blended family, children, coughing, discipline, family, footsteps, guitarists, husbands, keyboard player, noise, screaming, sleep, sleep deprivation, stepdaughter, upbringing, yelling on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OK, so I am a singer in a band. Drums (a mic in each) behind me, a bassist who plays harder as the night goes on, a guitarist who needs a 12-step program to stop turning up during the evening and a keyboard player who is competitive with all of them. One would think I [...]
Fat and Skinny Had a Race
Posted in Child rearing, body image, diet, family, husbands, weight on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Apparently the concept of “fat” has entered my five year old son’s awareness.
I blame myself.
He stretched out his Playdoh yesterday and asked me, “are skinny people stronger?” It seemed like a weird question. I answered, “Not necessarily. Muscular people are stronger.” Somewhere he had decided that skinny people were stronger than fat people. Now, I [...]
Mange, Mange
Posted in Child rearing, Manners, body image, diet, family, husbands, marriage, weight, tagged bacon, boyfriend, bringing up kids, Bushmills, Chinese, cooking, dinner, Dora fruit snacks, Doritos, eating, food, husband, Joy Luck Club, ketchup, lasagne, life lessons, Makers Mark, Manhattans, mom, mother, pancakes, sharing, steak on February 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I saw the movie The Joy Luck Club (yes, mom, I did read the book), one of the scenes sticks out in my mind. One of the women brings back a boyfriend who isn’t quite “with” the whole cultural difference thing, and her mother, who has doubtless been wringing her hands over this encounter, [...]
Pushing Through
Posted in Child rearing, Napping, Pushing through, husbands, marriage, moving with children, sleep deprivation, tagged babies, Child rearing, cosleeping, husbands, marrraige, mothering, moving with children, Napping, nursing, sleep, sleep deprivation, toddlers on September 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
After a lovely yet tiring day on the Valley Railroad’s Steam Train and riverboad ride, my son conked out in the back of the car. It had been perfect weather…cool air, sun, a little too much pollen (the engineer announced we were coming up to a “meadow”, but it was really a teeming field of [...]
