>While I’ve devoted many, many posts on this blog to my two smallest children, I almost never write about my older girls- even though their lives are no less interesting or important to me, and they cause me just as many sleepless nights as my younger children (but for entirely different reasons). The reason that […]
November 6, 2008
>6:30pm, CST ME: Punky, tonight is a very special night. PUNKY: Tonight is a very special night? Why? ME: Because tonight, our country gets a new president! PUNKY: A new present? Yay! ME: No. A new pres-i-dent. PUNKY: Oh… Well, what’s a pres-i-dent? ME: It’s like the king of our country. And two men are […]
November 5, 2008
> Let’s talk about sex. Specifically, teens having sex. They are, you know. A lot more of them than we’d like to think. And a new study suggests that pregnancy rates are substantially higher among teenagers who watch racy television programming than teens who don’t, regardless of the teens’ family structure or family income level […]
November 4, 2008
> It’s Perfect Post time again, a monthly award hosted by Kimberly and myself, in which bloggers get a chance to give a little extra recognition to their favorite post from the preceding month. This time around, I’m awarding my own Perfect Post seal of approval to the only person whose blog I’ve ever read […]
November 3, 2008
> “Could someone take these ladies to the potty, please?” Punky’s dance teacher leaned out of the classroom and peered at the moms waiting in the hall, gently prodding two four-year-old ballerinas out the door ahead of her. One of the mothers got up, smiled, and led the girls to the women’s room. The teacher, […]
November 3, 2008
> Enjoying the spoils. Can I even describe the way my heart leaped into my throat, watching my little girl run to a front door all by herself, reach high to ring the doorbell, and then shout an earnest, “Trick or treat!” as someone opened the door? I don’t think I can. Sure, there were […]
November 1, 2008
>…and have I ever overscheduled myself this time. I’m busy making brownies for tonight’s cul-de-sac Halloween party (which, Pumpkin Martinis! That’s all you need to know. Pumpkin! Martinis!), making cupcakes and cleaning the house for tomorrow’s soccer team party, soaking pumpkin seeds for roasting later today, getting ready for Punky’s morning school lessons, mourning the […]
October 31, 2008
>Look what just showed up in my inbox. And I am not even kidding… Monster Mash Singer’s Daughter Turns His Cremated Remains into a Diamond. Los Angeles, CA October 31st, 2008 – Bobby Pickett who co-wrote and performed “The Monster Mash“, died at the age of 69 on April 25, 2007 in Los Angeles, California, […]
October 30, 2008
> Once upon a time, there lived a wild and carefree lion. He loved to laze and loll about, basking in the warm sun on the African plains. But when he grew hungry, his muscles would tense and he’d become alert, stalking his prey with the greatest intensity. He’d center in on his target and […]
October 29, 2008
