I'm a DC-area mother with an over-developed sense of irreverence, ADD, socialist tendencies and a blog. All my opinions are entirely my own and not representative of anything officially sanctioned by any political party, my mother, or arbiters of common sense and good taste.
In my purse at this moment: WalletKeys7 Lipglosses*iPhone** (personal)BlackBerry (work)Game Change*** by Halperin and Heilemann4 board books (two of them about trains)Fruit roll-upCapri-SunTupperware filled with goldfish crackers and raisins3 binkiesSmall red toy carA fingerpainting project from Christmas * I am not wearing any lipgloss as I write this**iPhone contains a growing collection of toddler game apps*** I’m on page 25 after a week of owning the book
If I were a jewel thief – a career that no guidance counselor ever suggested for me – I would target book clubs. I went to my book club last night, where all but two of us cheerfully admitted that we hadn’t read the book and one woman , a mother of three girls 2 and under, didn’t even know what book we had been supposed to read. But there was wine, which was all…
This lady is a liar, liar pants on fire if she says she didn’t have surgery on her belly. Liar, liar, liar. Liar. Look at the photos at the bottom of the page showing the freakin’ ROAD MAP of stretch marks on her enormously distended belly. Those do not fade no matter how much you work out. Just ask any mom who looks at the rivets on her stomach, ass and thighs and wonders why…
A graphic my co-worker showed me: Best Venn Diagram Ever Something my toddler said recently: “I don’t want pants!” Connected? You be the judge.
Over the past weekend, C had some sort of bug complete with a juicy cough and a soaring fever that topped 103 a couple of times. Needless to say, he spent a fair amount of time flat on his back getting his temperature taken…um…in an uncomfortable place*. He was resistant to it, whether from the invasion of his most personal space or from his general opposition to lying still for any length of time is…
Back in my day, a day in which the wheel may or may not have been perfected, there was Sesame Street and there was the Muppet Show and they were good. Kermit the Frog was the only cross-over character between the two and he presented a form of irresistable Muppet leadership that made us all happy to follow him through movies, tv specials and the constant entertainment fare of his two tv gigs. But times…
