If you’re a regular reader of Motherese, or if you’ve ever had the experience of dining with me in person, you won’t be surprised to learn that I have a sweet tooth. Check that. I have a whole mouthful of sweet teeth. I love candy. I love cookies. I love cake. I love chocolate. I [...]
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As I use most of my remaining synapses to figure out how to make lemonade out of some pretty sour lemons, I decided to borrow an idea from Lindsey and Denise and offer my answers to one of Vanity Fair‘s monthly questionnaires. So, here goes, folks. I solemnly swear to return to our regularly scheduled [...]
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As if I needed further confirmation. As if a third pregnancy, a third dive into the bin of maternity clothes, and a third round of biweekly OB appointments weren’t reminder enough. I now have a very large, somewhat aerodynamic memento sitting in the garage symbolizing our growing family and the fact that I am a [...]
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Caution, friends: life-altering stuff today. Consider yourselves forewarned. I want to talk today about eyebrows. That’s right. Eyebrows. I remember distinctly the first time I had my eyebrows waxed. I was at a fancy (read: overpriced) day spa outside of Boston. I was three years out of college, temporarily single (a story for another day), [...]
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Might I recommend that if: a. you ever find yourself on bed-rest; b. you feel nauseated when you read for too long; and c. you are a TV-watcher, you try to schedule said bed-rest for a season other than the summer? I’m not a big TV-watcher by nature, but I do have a few shows [...]
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We’re coming up on a holiday weekend here in the States and I’ve got big plans. Quality time with my family. Berry picking. The farmers’ market. Our small town July 4th parade. The Tour de France, Wimbledon, the World Cup. (My remote control finger is getting tired just thinking about it!) So in honor of [...]
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After all this heavy talk about blogging and balance, I thought it might be time to lighten things up chez Motherese. I mean, come on, it’s almost summer – thanks to temperatures in the 80s and daily thunderstorms, it certainly feels like summer – so it is my pleasure today to bring you the next [...]
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Sick Big Boy + Sick Tiny Baby + Sick Husband = No Time for Good Writing You see, some sort of springtime plague descended on our house this week. I have survived unscathed so far, but I suspect it’s only a matter of time before the fact that my clothing has come to double as [...]
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A few weeks ago, my buddy Liz at …but then I had kids bestowed upon little-old-prone-to-blushing-me the Plastic Joy Award. As you can see from the rather suggestive picture above, the Plastic Joy award is all about embracing Lust. And how convenient that today’s Five for Ten topic is Lust, giving me the chance to [...]
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Lesson Four of Big Little Wolf’s sensational style series at Divorced Women Online introduces us to the importance of accessories in personalizing an ensemble. According to Big Little Wolf, “Accessories should enhance your appearance, make sense with your style, and tell your stories.” Emphasizing the love of the French for quality and individuality, Wolf focuses [...]
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I’ve written before about my lack of personal style. As epitomized by my very “not me” purse, my wardrobe is a messy mixture of gifts, ill-fitting relics, and a few inadvertent gems. But what bothers me about my clothes isn’t that they are more Target than Lhuillier (that doesn’t bother me at all, in fact); [...]
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Before heading to bed the other night, Big Boy told me that he had left me a “suh-pwize” in my bedroom. After putting the boys down to sleep and puttering around in the living room, Husband and I headed to bed a few hours later, having completely forgotten Big Boy’s warning. Imagine our suh-pwize when [...]
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My beloved DVR, It is customary in these parts to reflect on love at this time of year. On its pretty promise and prickly possibilities. I have known love; for I have known you. DVR, you had me at “Scheduled Recordings.” You had me at “Series Manager.” You are everything that I dreamed a Love [...]
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My beloved Big Little Wolf e-mailed me yesterday to ask: “‘Tiny Baby’ isn’t that tiny anymore, is he? When he turns one, what will you call him online?” A provocative question indeed, especially since Tiny Baby has never been all that, well, tiny. In fact, “Tiny Baby” was a nickname given to him – perhaps [...]
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Image: “Christmas Gifts,” by Kelvin Kay at Wikimedia Commons via a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. 13 nights,3 states,3 planes,3 cars,5 buses,6 beds,2 cribs,6 Pack ‘n Plays (or is it Packs ‘n Play?),2 nights of Hanukkah,1 birthday,1 Christmas Eve,1 Christmas,and 3 UPS boxes full of presents later,I am home at last, home at [...]
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Growing up, my family traveled almost exclusively by train. From our Connecticut home, we made separate cross-country train trips to Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Seattle, among other western locations. As a result of our train journeys, accompanying side excursions to national parks, and subsequent trips to Hawaii and Alaska, I have been to [...]
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I was a good basketball player as a kid. This was just before women’s basketball really exploded onto the scene and I managed to play pretty seriously and pretty competitively all the while playing other sports and carrying out the general business of childhood. The peak of my career came toward the end of grade [...]
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Image: “Ear,” courtesy of David Bebbennick at Wikimedia Commons via a Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 3.0 License. My sister-in-law SEL recently pointed out an endearing, if perhaps annoying, habit of mine: I pick up quickly on unusual sayings and phrases and incorporate them readily – occasionally ad nauseum – into my own speech. This has led me [...]
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I can say the alphabet backwards faster than I can say it forwards. For some reason, my beloved but eccentric father thought that it would be fun to have my brothers and me know the alphabet backwards and forwards - literally – before going to kindergarten. And knew it we did. Fun for a laugh to this [...]
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I turn 33 today. And that is troubling. Troubling not because I am concerned about getting older. It is troubling because today I turn from Magic Johnson into Larry Bird. Sigh. — Having a birthday on Christmas Eve was a mixed blessing growing up. On the one hand it meant that I could never have [...]
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I have an uncanny ability to remember song lyrics. In general, my memory is good, but my ability to recall the words and melodies of songs is formidable. My chops are particurly strong in the genre of 1980s television theme songs. I once found myself stuck in traffic with a car full of people, one [...]
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Last week, the witty, wise, and altogether wonderful Big Little Wolf gave me my first holiday gift, the Sugar Doll award. This prize comes with the bloggy equivalent of a required acceptance speech. And so, as part of my Holiday Hiatus, I give you the first installment in this Very Special Ten Part Mostly Silly [...]
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The Interwebs have been abuzz of late with news of kids and flying. The first story that caught my eye was that of blogger Nic at My Bottle’s Up who posted that her “son was taken from [her] by the TSA agents at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson airport.” Her post – which detailed a sequence of events [...]
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