I’ve had a short fuse lately. Maybe it’s hormonal, but I can’t seem to tolerate even the basic level of mess in our house. Sticky mess on the kitchen floor, tiny-toy mess in the playroom, marker mess on my kids’ faces, potty mess in the bathroom… I may be halfway out of The Baby Cave, [...]
Entries from August 30th, 2009
Happy Birthday to You
August 27th, 2009 3 Comments
A is 4 years old! Pinata, pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey, face painting, a trail of presents and wrapping paper strewn around the house… Then ice cream cones and carrot-cake made with our carrots and eggs for the loving crew of family, friends and neighbors who celebrated with us. THANK YOU to everyone who made the trip! We donned [...]
Tags: birthday party
Northeast Kingdom and Back Again
August 25th, 2009 No Comments
Tags: Northeast Kingdom · wedding · youth
Never Enough
August 18th, 2009 2 Comments
Is this the title of a Melissa Etheridge song or just the refrain running round in my head? Note to self: STOP reading US Magazine, Marie-Claire, Vogue, and other dangerous glossies. And especially during vulnerable, cranky moon-time, avoid even Yoga Journal, whose lithe, blissed-out California yoga goddesses practicing full Natarajasana on the beach have the potential [...]
Tags: Doutzen Kroes · inadequacy · Self-improvement
Reading List, again
August 13th, 2009 No Comments
Here are the books I am hoping/planning to finish/start in the next week/month: The Believers, by Zoe Heller (novel due back at the library in 2 days). “She was still in some shock regarding the servility of motherhood– the sheer, thankless drudgery of it. All the cleaning up of messes she had not made [...]
Judgment Day
August 11th, 2009 No Comments
I thought I’d already met Supermom this winter, at the indoor romper-room downtown. I was grappling with my toddler when a young, soft-spoken brunette appeared– trailing 4 kids all under age five. With infinite grace, she herded her brood out of their snowsuits, played trains, read books, settled disputes and offered wholesome snacks, [...]
Tags: judgment · motherhood
Oh What A Night
August 9th, 2009 1 Comment
Five years ago, a lifetime ago… My own winter wedding, held in a candlelit post-and-beam barn in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, still shines as the most joyful fun I’ve had on any given day. Giddy on love, family, friendship, food and champagne, I danced my head off till 1 am. It was hands-down the best party [...]
Celebrity Glamour-Moms
August 3rd, 2009 1 Comment
I can’t quite kick the tabloid habit. What compels me to brood over Angelina Jolie, vamping it up in a plunge-bodice black strapless and enormous emerald-drop earrings the size of her children’s thumbs? Or Heidi Klum strutting her flawless bikini body six weeks after birthing her third? I never used to care about celebrity [...]
Tags: Angelina Jolie · celebrity · Gwyneth Paltrow · motherhood