>”Oh. No.” I stared at my computer screen in horror. “What is it?” Hubs asked from across the room. “Someone at Mom and Dad’s was looking at my website last night from 11:30 until almost two in the morning.” “Well, it couldn’t have been your parents,” Hubs surmised. “They would never be up that late.” […]
November 13, 2006
>”Are y’all fixing to eat dinner or are you going to eat, like one appetizer and split it?” the waiter asked. “Because we need to save our tables for real customers.” My 16-year-old and two friends had walked to the American Cafe at Green Hills Mall after last night’s football game. 16 looked around at […]
November 11, 2006
>Did you have a problem with turbo-treating this Halloween? Find out what I’m talking about, as well as why Halloween serves as a cruel reminder that it’s best to keep to oneself in the suburbs, in this week’s Nashville Scene edition of Suburban Turmoil. The full text is below. Turbo TreatIt’s a week after Halloween […]
November 8, 2006
> “I’m sure I’ll be much more relaxed the second time I’m pregnant,” I assured my obstetrician three years ago while pregnant with my first child. “Oh no,” she said. “You’ll worry more. Everyone does. I think that women know more about all the things that can go wrong, and they start to obsess about […]
November 8, 2006
>My husband likes to tell people he lives in a women’s dormitory. He acts like he’s joking, but with 31, 16, 13 and 2-year-old females in the house, he’s definitely the odd man out. The hallways reek of perfume. The tables and countertops are littered with Disney Princess dolls, stray earrings and lip gloss containers. […]
November 7, 2006
>Last night, we rented Monster House, a big budget, computer-animated movie about a house that attacks and eats people. The movie was cute (heightened by Baby dancing around at the end, chanting “Yay, mean old man, Yay mean old man!”) but when I went upstairs to go to bed, it hit me like a Steve […]
November 6, 2006
>”So we played this game today in group time,” my 16-year-old said, “where the teacher read out statements and we had to name the person in the group who best fit the statement. And guess which two statements everyone said fit me?” “I don’t know, what?” “I will be a stay-at-home mom‘ and ‘I am […]
November 3, 2006
