I’m always seeing pictures of other families’ playrooms on Instagram and Pinterest. Pretty playrooms, everything arranged just so, in order to keep the inevitable toy mess separate from the rest of the house. I always said my kids would have to have a playroom or would be required to keep their toys contained in their…
L is continually teaching me not to underestimate her at any stage. No matter what I think she is or is not capable of, she is apt to yank the rug out from under my expectations on any given day. We had another lesson in this on Halloween, when we went Trick-or-Treating with Jen and…
Two years ago this week, I got pregnant with L. When I found out five weeks later, it was this huge surprise we weren’t prepared for. We’d gotten married in August, went on our honeymoon to Kenya in September, and were really just beginning to settle into a marriage routine. We were looking at a…
Because I have this blog and an acknowledged overabundance of cookbooks, it’s probably pretty clear that I like to cook new things. But I also work full time, have a husband in graduate school, and a busy toddler running around, so people frequently ask me how I manage a homecooked meal every night, not…
My 13-month-old suddenly has an affinity for babies. She’s fascinated by them. She has a book of babies from around the world and suddenly, it’s her favorite book. She excitedly points out babies everywhere we go (even some older than her, which leads me to wonder if she realizes she, too, is a “baby”). When…
I feel like a runaway. I’m sitting in the cool, coffee-scented air of the Barnes & Noble down the street from my house, listening to some version of I Just Met a Girl Named Maria (’cause B&N is down with the show tunes) playing over the store’s intercom system. I’m here to work on my neglected…