I am not really a “typical” woman when it comes to a lot of things. I don’t particularly like to cuddle or hold hands. I tend to be cranky and temperamental. I’m an anal-retentive control freak that is militant about a large number of household-related tasks. I am completely lacking in sympathy and therefore make a terrible nursemaid. [...]
Dear Miss T: Happy birthday, little one. Three years, wow! Look at you, getting all big and stuff. You, missy, certainly keep us all on our toes. You’re just always up to something – whether with the intent of mischief or not. For example, one morning when I went to get you out of bed, [...]
To my husband, on his 32nd birthday: 1. You take AE to school every morning, because you know that particular brand of traffic makes me stabby. 2. You gave up your car and volunteered to drive my 9-year-old 4Runner without a second thought, because you knew that BMW was what I really, really wanted. 3. [...]
Here we are again…September 15. The anniversary of the day that I first became a mother. And this year, the day that my precious baby boy turns eight years old. Sweet fancy Moses. Eight years old. So just how old does that make me? Ahem. Moving on. Dear AE: A few weeks you asked me [...]
My freakout has begun. You know, the I’m-starting-grad-school-in-10-days-while-working-full-time-and-parenting-two-young-kids-I-barely-keep-on-top-of-my-life-as-it-is-mother-of-God-what-have-I-done freakout. What, you’ve never had one of those? I ordered my textbooks online through Amazon last week and one arrived yesterday. I skimmed through it and was immediately transported back into my very first sociology class, a place where I was introduced to the word “paradigm” and [...]
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