Average Working Mom

It was a difficult evening.  The commute home was long and slow.  I was trying to figure out what on earth we would eat for dinner.  I deci...

Yesterday, I dressed up as a princess to go to a birthday party with with almost-5-year old daughter.  It was a princess-party, obviously, ...

My husband just asked me what I wanted to do today. My answer is nothing really.  I don't want to make any plans.  I just want to let...

I know... cute, right? That was me, age 5, in costume for my first tap routine, "At the Codfish Ball", at my first da...

Dear Lice, You really know how to spoil a mood. We've been having such a good week, filled with lots of things to celebrate.  ...

I'm still in the first couple of days back to reality after our family holiday last week.  After a wonderful vacation, follow...

My husband and I consider ourselves reasonably strict parents.  After all, we need some order just to control the chaos.  But sometim...

I'm not really big on New Year's Resolutions.   After several years of resolving (and failing): to work out more, to take the sta...

I wrote this spoof of an annual Christmas letter last year, after receiving one too many Christmas letters from distant relatives summar...

I've found another terrific parenting/cookbook!   (Actually, my sister discovered  it.  She had borrowed it from the library then ...

We continue to battle the germs in this house.  I knew conquering cold and flu season wouldn't be easy, but it's only November,...

This is an EVICTION NOTICE. You are no longer welcome in our home. I understand that you are only trying to survive by moving from c...

I hate it when it happens.  Luckily, it hasn't happened for a while.  But tonight, I lost it.   I lost my temper.    My anger had b...

My first post to this blog was a description of my average day .  Things have changed a bit since then: we no longer have a nanny, the g...