The Horse of Heartbreak Hill
Also visit: a bracket on post-pregnancy running maladies
Flu, 3 a.m.
Three things you should know about my grandmother
Quiz Time: Fun at the Grocery Store
Did I mention how much I hate potty training?
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Why Daisy Scribbled on the Couch with a Black Marker
Scared of the Dark
And then this happened . . .
The name of the person who is solely responsible for me not posting very much for the last, oh, few [...]
Decisive Daisy
Book review: Everything Goes – Henry Goes Skating
We loved “Everything Goes on Land” by Brian Biggs (see previous review!) so we were super excited about the early [...]
The Strongest Woman in the World, Mud Race Edition
R.I.P. minivan
Mother’s Day gift conversion guide
Our vacation was awesome! Or: Mom, I’m really sorry about your new carpet
Right of Way
Book review: Everything Goes on Land
“Everything Goes on Land” by Brian Biggs is a combination storybook, look-and-find, and counting book that is layered with [...]
What I was thinking two minutes before I went to go sleep on the couch
Congratulations on your Lava Boobs!
Suburban Food Chains (a.k.a. “mommy, where are all my Barbie shoes?”
Book review: Pete the Cat – I Love My White Shoes
If you’re encouraging any kind of music appreciation in your child, you’ll love this book. It has a natural [...]
Book review: When My Baby Dreams
When My Baby Dreams is a collection of cleverly staged photos of a sleeping baby named Mila arranged in [...]
Book review: Extra Yarn
Extra yarn is about a little girl in a winter town who finds a box of yarn that never [...]
Love is Blind (ha ha ha ha ha ha Whew!)
Chloe’s world of nonsense (mostly)
Before this happened, I got to sit down for, like, 5 whole minutes
Wear proper safety gear while thwacking the bejeezus out of a brussel sprout stalk
On the twelfth day of Christmas, my baby gave to me:
Show-and-tell: Weird things found in shark stomachs
Thank you, watershed poster nonprofit
How Poppy Alper ruined 7 outfits in 1 day
Baby Math III
Also see Baby Math I and Baby Math II
Your true self, and garage-sale footwear
Suck it, ponies! We rode a camel!
Notice! Mommy is taking the day off.
Break/Brake
How to … Bathe the baby!
Bullshit advice for exhausted new parents
Things I am doing instead of folding the laundry
First day of preschool checklist
Monster Infestation
Ode to Blankie
Unicorn, Bunny, Unicorn (a novel)
This is an embedded flash file, and it doesn’t appear to be working consistently — if it doesn’t load below, [...]
The names of things
Seriously, it’s a nipple blister
The first law of motion
We later decided the culprit was unchewed oranges
Fun in the Emergency Room!
Laramie 1982, and the emergency bad-decision-maker contest
Danger!
Summer (beezers!)
Minivan Look-and-Find
Birth Control Disasters
The real actual truth
Fertilizer
This is for Heather at themommyhood.com, who said, ”My time is precious … I need sarcasm, wit or poo.”
Go Canucks, Go! Oh, crap!
We sat between a trio of drunken septuagenarian Bruins fans from New Brunswick — one of whom kept conspiratorially telling [...]
Go Canucks Go: A simple prayer
Tuesday Night
Oli’s Favorite Recipe
Go Canucks Go
Our old plates from our New York days …
Cousin Clara takes a stand
(thanks, Tory, for letting me post this!)
The secret world on the top bunk
Chloe’s best fits ever
Recipe: Chocolate Chip Cookies!!
No-Nap Nancy
Boob Job vs. BOB
The Skinny-Mini Diet
Happy first birthday
Résumé
A small gift
Mommy taxonomy
How to clean the barf out of a car seat
“P” Area
The tricky moves of a Kung-Fu Mommy
Sounds that wake the baby up
The Nurser
Oh no! You’ve got MOM HAND
Favoritism
Work: Parts of a breast pump
1) Pulsating motor, which the people in the office next door to the “lactating room” will suspect is really a [...]
What’s in the garbage today?
- “Taweenie,” aka Lightning McQueen, big sister’s all-time-favorite toy -DIAPERS, infinity – Earrings, pulled out of auntie’s delicate ear – [...]