When I read this Worst Moms Moment from Ginger at Spicey Mom, my heart dropped into my stomach. That's all I'm going to give you -- read for yourselves... ******** I am sure that every parent, from day one, imagines the worst case scenario of losing their child. Sickness, SIDS, accidents, kidnapping, you name it, [...]
The other night, while I was up with insomnia, I started making a "You Suck" list. It's just one of many lists that go through my head when my other non-sleeping choices are to: Make a list from the other 100 lists regarding everything from "Brilliant blog posts that come to me...at 2 a.m." to [...]
More tales from the autism front. Today's questions come from the mother of "Tara," a 3-and-a-half year old who was just diagnosed. Keep in mind that I've never met these people, so I'm basically just relaying what we did in these same situations. Our son, Newt, was diagnosed with high-functioning autism at the same age and [...]
We're a family of three, not four this week (or four, not five, if you count the dog). Newt, our 10-year-old, is away for two nights with his classmates at a wilderness camp. At Lake Tahoe. In the snow. Fortunately he's not snow camping (because that's only for crazy people). They're in cabins with heat [...]
I went and saw Les Miserables with a girlfriend the other night. It was an amazing movie, but for some reason, I still feel like I could just nitpick it to pieces. I'm starting to think this could be my calling -- professional life nitpicker. Too bad I can't get someone to pay me for that... [...]
So yesterday I was lucky enough to come across this post from Grass Oil by Molly Field. This is worth a read for two reasons: one, it's a serious, cautionary, Worst Mom Tale (and by that I mean "worst" in the best way possible -- you know, kind of how "bad" and "phat" somehow got [...]
Today has been one of those run-around-like-a-crazy-person days. The kind where there's so much to do in your house that you keep getting distracted by equally opposing forces (I'll just put this leftover pizza in the fridge so it won't spoil. That is, after I take the clothes out of the dryer so they won't [...]
I spent the last four days holding my breath, waiting for Elfie to start puking. Last Monday, she made the unfortunate decision to share lip gloss with her friend who threw up later that evening. Apparently there's some virus going around with a 4-ish day incubation period. So during our entire drive to San Francisco [...]
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