Do I gripe about my in-laws too much? Do I seem like a complainer? If so, I’d like to clarify: I am venting. Merely venting. My world is small right now. I live within a 30-mile radius of my husband’s entire family. And they’re a huge bunch. Parents, siblings, nieces and nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins, [...]

When it rains, I am literally up to my eyeballs in laundry. With two large dogs running in and out of the backyard, it takes two towels per trip to clean them up before they can even think about coming back in the house. And it’s raining again today. Add into the equation a two-year [...]

A couple of days ago, on my way back home from running errands, I had a really depressing encounter with the rear-view mirror in my car. It was so light and bright outside, and at a red light, I became so wrapped up in staring at the horrors! that I saw in the mirror that [...]

I used to be a magazine addict. I had a subscription to every conceivable one out there, from “The Week” to “Us” to “Town & Country” to “Vogue.” But when Pea came along, I found it really difficult to actually find any time to sit down and read a magazine from cover to cover, and [...]

I think my in-laws aren’t that fond of me. Well, namely my mother-in-law. We seemed, I thought, to have reached a comfortable place recently, but I think I was deluding myself. It took her an abnormally long time to cut those apron strings with my husband. And it really bothered me in the beginning of [...]

I’m having a tough time lately. Pea is in her “daddy” phase. Everything is “daddy do it,” or “where daddy go?” From the time she wakes up in the morning to her bedtime, it’s all about daddy. I guess this is pretty common for her age, right? But still, when I go into her room [...]

I love to give my girls massages before bed. It wasn’t always so successful with Pea, she tended to not want to sit still long enough to enjoy it, but with Coco, it’s a whole other story. She loves her massages. Every night after her bath, she coos and giggles and sighs while I rub [...]

Pea starts preschool on Wed. As in two days from today. I can’t believe how quickly two years can go by. It seems like just yesterday when I was claiming to have no interest in sending her off to school, I would just miss her too much. Sob. How quickly that all changed! Guiltily, I [...]