My Baby Can Plead!

Do you all know those commercials for that piece of shit product “Your Baby Can Read”?   It features a bunch of, like, newborns, still dripping with amniotic fluid,  reading or acting out the words their shit-for-brains, idiot parents are showing them on pieces of paper/flash cards?    Then the parents look at the

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Walking Cookie …

So, it’s 3am and I decide to break out my various make-up cases and newly purchased make-up items.  I proceed to do a “Kardashian inspired” smokey eye on the left eye and a “Classic day eye” on the right eye …

Then …

I put on Notting Hill … (FABULOUS! movie, by the way

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Remember to Always Play Beethoven Before Bedtime …

Dear Baby Boy,

Today you stood next to me and your head was up to my boob!  It occurred to me just how much time has passed since your head was directly under my boob, while you grew in my tummy (actually, my uterus — but you’ll learn all about THAT one day from

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A Conversation with Aidyn – Tuesday Version

Aidyn: (walking into kitchen)  Mommy, can we get a big brother and a baby brother and baby sister?

Me: (staring blankly at my wee one)  Where do we get all that?

Aidyn: Maybe we can get a baby brother and baby sister and then find a store that has big brothers …

Me: (still

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My Hair’s a Mess …

… my stomach hurts … my skin is dry … my spirit is tired … my body is exhausted … my eye’s are puffy … my focus is skewered … I am so so sleepy … my nail’s are brittle … my gut is unsightly … my life is out of order … my

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Aidyn’s Take On The New Job …

So, I’m a real estate agent now … and most people know that.   My son isn’t so clear on what I do so we discussed it a bit today …

BABY:  ”Mommy where are you going?”

ME: “To work, Sweets”

BABY:  ”What are you going to do … What do you do …”

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Open Letter to Coach

My Dearest, Dearest Coach,

I’ve obsessed over admired you for quite some time now.  I’m finally in a position that will allow me to enjoy the fruits of your labor and I think it’s time we … started a relationship.

I walked into one of your stores on 5th Ave a couple of days

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My New Obsession …

One of my bloggity friends, Sarah, posted a link to this picture site called 365project and now I’m ALL. OVER it … Here’s a peek at today’s pic …

Regarding the Puppy …

My sister wants a puppy.

You would think I’d be getting this kind of thing from my 5y/o and not my grown, 21y/o sister. “I want a puppy!”, she’d say at least a dozen times this year. “I’m getting a puppy!”, she texts.

Well.

Dear Little Sister,

We HAVE a puppy!! She’s almost 13

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Love in the Time of Baby Wipes …

Last month (or so) I was hired as a columnist for a lovely online magazine called Lovemionline.com. I named my column “Love in the Time of Baby Wipes” as it has to do with the “dating” aspect of being a single mom. In my relatively “off” emotional state, of late, I’ve neglected to mention

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