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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]