Anybody else find their desire to eat healthily totally at odds with their desire to eat cheaply? Wallet or waistline? They get trimmer or fatter in parallel, I find, which is not how I would have it, were I Queen. Oh, to be an heiress.
Nursing – Thoughts
Those first nights when we brought you home, I found that though you slept in a cradle at our feet, I could not easily get out of our bed to fetch you when you cried, and so I slept on the office couch. I have not slept in that bed since the night my water…
Renaissance Girl
A friend and I were talking over lunch last week about how passionately anti-American Idol we are. OK, let me go wipe off the tomatoes that I just got pelted with, and then I will continue. Goofy reality shows are the name of the game this decade, and I get it, and it’s…
Where Are They Now?
I was exasperated that they gave me the outspoken racist kid in the same cabin as the extra shy and tremendously hyper black kid. I felt like I had so much that I needed to teach them both, but it was difficult to do when one was slyly slipping racial epithets into every conversation while…
Just Call Me Wild Thang
This is an easy one. I’d stay in bed until Frog woke up, which is usually around 8. I’d change his diaper, wash his neck and face with a baby washcloth, and carry him into the front room, where Darlin’ would be reading the paper with his coffee. I’d sit in the “sacrificial” green chair,…