My Wombinations

Dear Sammy, I spent part of this afternoon going through old photos to send to your teacher so she can make a little booklet of your life. ...

Yesterday we wrapped up our sessions with the psychiatrist who was evaluating Sam and I must say, it was a massive, massive relief. She tap...

I hate when people use other people's tragedies as opportunities to count their own blessings, but I heard a couple stories last night t...

This piece on Babble is generating a lot of debate among my mother friends (and the occasional father and non-father, too). The piece esse...

And p.s. the Pats were playing. Daddy rules.

So my little monkey is the dreaded 13 months. And what a strange month it has been. We started the month with the beginning of Early Interv...

Since I am late in writing this, some of these changes are going to me more like "Sam at 2 years, 7.5 months" but I can't pret...

I have been remiss in blogging, tis true. I have no real reason except that between my Fit Pregnancy Blog and my marathon training, bloggi...

Dear Ani, I think it has been really hitting me this past week that you are really going to turn one. Even though I have begged and pleaded...

Dear Ani, I think it has been really hitting me this past week that you are really going to turn one. Even though I have begged and pleaded...

More and more it seems Sam is a little girl. The baby is disappearing so quickly, I hardly remember her. In her place we have a fun, albei...

I am not typically a birthday person. I am not a huge fan of getting older and am generally disappointed in whatever the days brings. But ...

In the comment section of my latest essay on Babble.com, there seems to be a little argument about "counting our blessings." Tha...

A few points of clarity with yesterday's post: 1.) I am in NO WAY advocating for private school over public. I am not sure why anyone w...

A very interesting piece came out today on Babble. Essentially, the author (who has five children) says that she will not pay for her child...

Ani-bear is now one month from his first birthday, a fact that will make me sob if I allow it to sit too long, so I am trying to avoid that ...

Because my life was not complicated enough, I have decided to add weight loss to my list of goals over the next few months. Let me preempt t...

This month I feel a bit like we are back to the early days of Sam and Alan when she tried to kill him daily and I felt like my every minute ...

Since the co-op incident, I have had a lot of time to consider what it was that went so horribly awry and in that time I have come to the fo...

As my little bear grows from cub to grizzly, I am awash in a familiar feeling: sadness. He is 10.5 months, finally getting mobile, drinking ...

This month Mama has discovered that baby boys are indeed, SO MUCH fun to dress. Why? Because of this and this and this and this It used...

My June column .

The past month has been a whirlwind of change for Sammy. It seems that, more than any other month, she has gone from baby/toddler to girl/p...