Here we go again, it seems like we just returned home, and already I am – once again – up to my eyeballs in Ziploc bags. Yup, we are getting ready to fly out to New York City in the morning. But this time, well this time I just couldn’t bring myself to begin the [...]

Hmm. I just reread yesterday’s post, and I think I should clarify a few things. Starting with this: losing weight was not easy. At least not as easy as I might have implied. Yes, I signed up for Weight Watchers and yes, I followed it. But not always willingly. Some days were good, some days [...]

I’m getting deliriously close to my pre-baby weight. I actually had to buy a belt to hold up my jeans because I made an oath to myself that I was not going to buy any more clothing until I was at my goal weight. So instead, I invested in a really cute belt that I [...]

Today is a proud day in our household. Pea no longer refers to cookies as “cookahs.” She now calls those little sugar gems by their official name. Actually, she screams for them by name, with the pantry door wide open. She can’t quite reach them, but she is trying. “Cookies! Cookies! I want cookies now! [...]

When Pea was born, we went organic. I bought all of our produce at Whole Foods once a week. And then our grocery store started carrying organic, as well, so I didn’t have to drive to Dallas anymore for the produce. I think this is pretty common for women to start doing this once they [...]

I have not done a load of laundry in days. That is out of character for me, too. I’m so completely manic about having dirty laundry around the house – I can’t stand when our laundry baskets are even half-way full. But over the last week, I’ve really not done any. I just couldn’t bare [...]

I’ve been incredibly nauseous the last two days. Like the kind of nausea that you have when… well, when you are in your early weeks of pregnancy. It’s the kind of nausea that goes down really deep and it’s just such a familiar feeling, having had two very awful first trimesters with both girls. Nothing [...]

So I’m moping around the house today, thinking about how unfair life is. I’ve been running blog ideas through my mind all afternoon, but in the end, everything just seems too pointless. Self-indulgent, vapid and pointless. Who cares about lip gloss or cute kid shoes when the love of my life (no offense, dear husband) [...]

We lost Chamo today. My husband and I were with him for his passing. It was horribly devastating and yet somehow freeing. Does that sound awful? Because I was a hysterical mess but afterwards, when he was laying there looking like he does when he’s asleep, and I was cuddled up with him, I really [...]

Today has been one of those days that you could say was a study in extremes. Extreme sadness mixed with extreme happiness. Chamo is still at the Animal ER. We’ve been back and forth to visit with him but there’s no change and no new information. He’s refusing to eat. I can’t help but think [...]

I haven’t felt this glum in a while. You know those days when you wake up and just think what’s the point? I’m having one of those. We still don’t have any definitive answers about our pup and that’s tough. We visited him at the hospital a few times today, but it’s so hard to [...]

This is Chamo. Rhymes with mom-oh. He is our black lab. He’s almost twelve. He’s the first dog I ever fell in love with, and although he came into the relationship through a back door (he was my husband’s from his single days), he has been my dog since he was 4. He is loyal, [...]

I love being a wife and a mother. I just love to take care of my family. But I noticed after two years that I was putting everyone else first, and me? I was waaaaay back on my list of priorities. I know this is the plight of the mother. How do we do what [...]

Today, I went with Pea to the mall. I don’t like this mall. I don’t really like any mall. But I needed to try this product by Bobbi Brown that was supposedly going to change my life. Well, maybe not my life, but at least the occasional undereye dark circles I’ve been suffering from of [...]

When Coco was just a couple of weeks old, I can remember distinctly being at The Little Gym with my older daughter and telling the other mothers (more like bragging to the other mothers) that life with a newborn was so easy this time around because Coco was such a master sleeper already. Five hours [...]