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As I stare into a computer monitor decorated with password-bearing Post-It notes, I’m alerted to a text from my non-password protected phone. In case there was ever any doubt, I don’t care about protecting my personal correspondence. With three emails addresses and countless social media accounts open at all times, my utter indifference toward private […]
You know how once an embryo nestles in your uterus you’re struck with “pregnancy brain”? Yeah, that happened to me. Apparently it’s supposed to go away some time after you give birth when your brain swells down and you start sleeping normal again or something. I’m no doctor or anything but I’m pretty sure that’s […]
Whether you’re in a relationship or not, you’ve cringed at ridiculous couple behavior. I suppose when you’re all love-crazed in a delicious new relationship it’s easy to lose sight of socially acceptable behavior, being all freshly sexed up and all. For the rest of us who are neither in new relationships nor freshly sexed, y’all […]
While I never said I loved being in the kitchen, I’ve tried nearly everything to persuade BooBoo to venture beyond his diet of chicken nuggets and cinnamon apple sauce without success. I read somewhere that a food must be introduced at least 15 times to see if a child will accept it. Well, let’s see, […]
My wedding cake was topped with a dapper looking groom and a lovely traditional bride. By all accounts it’s a lovely porcelain figurine that now sits on a bookshelf covered in dust. If I had a wedding day do-over, I choose the same man, rethink the long sleeve gloves, lose the hideous fern from my […]
We bought our house located less than a quarter of a mile from an elementary school the spring before Boy Wonder started kindergarten. “How great it will be to walk to and from school when he gets just a little older!” we thought. Five years later as Boy Wonder gears up to enter the 5th […]
Big Daddy P and I argue about damn near everything. From how often to shut down the computer, to how awesome I drive, to the temperature on the thermostat, we argue about it … agree to disagree … and then argue some more. It’s exhausting, infuriating, and the secret to a happy marriage? Quite possibly. According […]
I bitched long and hard about needed time away from my family. A couple days later I bitched about all the fun they have without me when I’m gone. But underneath all that bitching, part of me was really hoping that my family would fall apart without me. Maybe BooBoo would cry himself to sleep […]
Beyond, “Mom, can I have a snack?” there are questions I hatebeing asked, particularly by men. From whether or not I’m on my period to what the hell I do all day, questions such as these ballsy and inconsiderate. When my fellow Babble blogger, Marinka tackled 5 Questions Men Should Not Ask Women, my mind […]
I was trying on clothes with reckless abandon in a JC Penney dressing room when I witnessed an unexpected and beautiful mom moment. As I was shoving my mom thighs into a pair of low rise skinny jeans I had no business wearing, a teenage girl and her mother in the dressing room next door were […]
The Untitled GenX Podcast
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