>Is there anything more annoying than a grown woman walking around with words on her butt? It’s bad enough that teenagers wear these ridiculous pants, but they’re teenagers, so we cut them some slack. If they didn’t make fashion mistakes, there would be something wrong with them. But a 35-year-old woman whose beehonkus is, let’s […]

Live

July 10, 2007

>Butt Words

>I have a new writing job, one that will be revealed in a few days. And with that writing job comes a new arrangement in which, two days a week for two hours, I put Punky down for her nap and head over to Starbucks while one of the girls watches the baby. I get […]

Live

July 9, 2007

>One Tit Wonder

>Punky now insists on shouting, “Truth!” instead of “Cheese!” when she poses for photos. What could that mean, my Freudian friends? It certainly doesn’t make for a pretty smile…

Live

July 8, 2007

>Kids are Weird

>Punky’s been sick. After three straight weeks of coughing and three doctor’s visits, she’s finally been diagnosed with a sinus infection and prescribed an antibiotic. She acts like she feels fine, except that she coughs and hacks about every 30 seconds or so and it’s driving us all out of our minds. There’s not much […]

Live

July 7, 2007

>The Cough

>Some people would drunk blog right now, having just returned home from an anniversary date night and having imbibed an orangetini on top of a glass of wine on top of a (my sigrnature tdrink) Frnech martini. But I refuse to do what everybdoy else would do in my situation and I refuse to drunk […]

Live

July 6, 2007

>A Public Service Message

>Hot moms are all the rage right now (I guess that’s a “nice” term for MILFs), but do any of us really feel qualified to be members? Find out the results of my hard-hitting hot mom investigation in this week’s Nashville Scene edition of Suburban Turmoil. Here it is in its entirety… The Hot Moms […]

Live, Nashville Scene

July 5, 2007

>Who’s a Member of the Hot Moms Club?

> Five years ago today in Elgin, Scotland, I married the most amazing man on the planet. Happy Anniversary, Hubs. Thank you for giving me my fairy tale ending.

Live

July 5, 2007

>Oh, and Happy Independence Day to Everyone Else

>As the phone rang, I glanced down at the caller ID screen. Oh. It was her again. Sighing, I picked up the receiver. “Hello,” I said tiredly. “Hi,” came a small voice on the other end of the line. “Who is this, anyway?” I asked. “Who’s this?” she replied sassily. “Well it’s sure not the […]

Live

July 3, 2007

>The Caller

> “My husband still expects me to get dinner on the table every night,” one of my mom friends snorted shortly after we’d both had our first babies. “He needs to understand that it’s just not going to happen anymore. This baby takes up all of my time!” I often think about that conversation as […]

Live

July 3, 2007

>Judgment Day

> It’s the most wonderful time of the year…. Okay, maybe I’m stretching a bit, but it is Perfect Post Award time, which always makes me feel a little tiny bit like Christmas. Even in July. The Perfect Post Awards, if you didn’t know already, are a way for bloggers to award their favorite post […]

Live

July 2, 2007

>The Perfect Post Awards