> Like many other mommy bloggers out there, I get more than my share of e-mails from PR firms hawking everything from makeup to drug testing kits to baby food. Once upon a time, I simply responded to those that interested me and deleted the rest, but lately I’ve noticed that the e-mails are becoming […]
October 15, 2007
> Punky has a new obsession: Halloween. “Is it Halloween yet?” she asks me almost daily. She runs around constantly singing about ghosts and goblins and trick or treating and she loves the Halloween lights and jack-o-lanterns I’ve put throughout the house. Punky will be dressing as Snow White this year (a costume we conveniently […]
October 14, 2007
I really can’t say how it happened. But somehow, I found myself standing behind a table full of barbeque and potato salad last night, wearing disposable gloves and dishing up dinners for the parents on my stepdaughters’ soccer team. I was only supposed to bring desserts, I grumbled to myself while keeping a sweet smile […]
October 13, 2007
I find one of Punky’s little acquaintances extremely irritating, even though she’s done absolutely nothing wrong. It’s her name. Manhattyn. Reading it on my computer screen right now is like hearing nails screech down a chalk board. Manhattyn? Manhattyn?! As if the name itself weren’t stupid enough, her parents had to go and spell it […]
October 12, 2007
>I had babysitters on the brain last week, all because I was working on a column about them. Here’s the next question: Would you pay $100 to be introduced to local babysitters from an elite university? I did. (Luckily, I was reimbursed!) I wrote about the experience in this week’s Nashville Scene edition of Suburban […]
October 11, 2007
> New moms generally are showered by their friends and family with all kinds of “indispensible” items, from diaper wipe warmers and bottle sterilizers to Miracle Blankets and play gyms. But even the woman with 200 baby shower guests probably won’t receive the one thing she’ll need most in the year to come: Coffee. Lots […]
October 10, 2007
> Last night was one of those nights. As my family sat and chatted together at the dinner table, every comment I made seemed to be ignored; every joke I offered was met with an eyeroll. Parents of teens will agree that this is not an unusual night at the dinner table, but Hubs was […]
October 9, 2007
>After years of using the name ‘Harold G. Jordache’ as my white pages alias, I’m having fantasies of doing something really horrible to him, something involving a heavy candlestick, or a pearl-handled Beretta, or maybe that old standby, arsenic. Because Harold T. Jordache has become a real pain in the butt. People have always called […]
October 8, 2007
> “Okay, Punky, which shirt do you want for your scarecrow?” Together, we looked over our options laid out on the art studio table as part of the Tuesdays for Tots program at the botanical gardens. There were shirt shapes cut from cute polka dots, pretty pastel plaids and a lovely little pink swirly pattern. […]
October 7, 2007
