> For just $300, Patrick the Pup can be under YOUR Christmas tree! Sometimes, I think the toy makers have it out for us. Not only are they going into overdrive with the ad time right now, they’re promoting all their most outrageously expensive toys in between episodes of Dora and the Wonderpets. And how […]
December 18, 2009
The e-mails have been pouring in and so, back by popular demand, BAD SANTA: 2009 Edition! And after you read this, be sure and check out Bad Santa 2006, 2007 and 2008! This-One’s-Just-the-Right-Size-for-My-Roasting-Pan Santa Every-Last-One-of-You-Schlemiels-is-getting-coal Santa I-was-only-kidding-about-Rudolph-Getting-Hit-by-a-747 Santa The-Bigger-the-Beard-the-Smaller-the… Santa When-Good-Elves-Go-Bad Santa Stranglehold Santa My-Beard-May-Not-Be-Real-but-My-Pinch-Is Santa Apparently-It’s-Too-Cold-to-Bathe-in-the-North-Pole […]
December 17, 2009
>A few weeks ago, I attended a lovely holiday party organized by a couple of women for a small group of mom bloggers. Let me put emphasis on the word “small”- It was a crafting party, so enough supplies were bought specifically for the women who were planning on attending. The problem was that out […]
December 15, 2009
>We had planned today to go to Bethlehem. Once a year, a church here in Nashville fills its entire first floor with sand and uses lamps and tents to create an authentic-looking Middle Eastern bazaar, circa 1 AD. The kids learn about traditional customs and foods and make little dolls, which they then give to […]
December 13, 2009
>If motherhood is a difficult job, a big part of the difficulty involves the boredom that comes with the territory. My husband sometimes accuses me of having it easy because I get to take the kids to the playground and to ballet class and spend a lot of time at home while he has to […]
December 11, 2009
>Ordinarily, I don’t write this kind of post on this blog, but when it involves one of you getting a FABULOUS and unexpected Christmas present, I think that warrants a special interruption! I am giving away a most awesome “Mobile Internet Device,” which is basically a touchscreen computer that fits in your purse or pocket. […]
December 9, 2009
>I was right on the blissful verge of unconsciousness when the baby monitor began shaking on my nightstand. From it blared the unmistakable sounds of Bruiser, launching into yet another coughing fit. Only this time, the sound was… different. “Oh hell,” I muttered, leaping from my bed and running for his room. Inside, Bruiser sat […]
December 8, 2009
>I love how the Internet puts so many of my mom blogging friends in the spotlight. I can’t even count how many times I’ve opened a magazine and seen a mom blogger I know featured in its pages, or turned on the Today show and spotted a blogging friend, or been listening to NPR and […]
December 7, 2009
>A couple of weeks ago, the creator of the infamous television show, Cheaters, commented on this blog. It got me to thinking: What does the man who’s spent the last ten years of his life watching men and women cheat think about love? I asked Cheaters creator Bobby Goldstein for a phone interview and he […]
December 3, 2009
