I almost went out dancing a few Fridays ago. It seemed like a good idea that Thursday, when I read about the “infectious” Afrobeat band Fenibo playing at a bar downtown. “Sometimes you just have to get out and shake it!” said one vivacious friend, a young pretty mother of three who has a new [...]
Entries Tagged as 'motherhood'
MOMS’ NIGHT OUT
December 8th, 2011 4 Comments
Tags: Fenibo · MILF · moms' night out · motherhood · Wild Night on the Catwalk
CAN I HAVE A HUG?
November 17th, 2011 2 Comments
A won’t let me kiss her goodbye at school. She halts me at the door to her classroom and hisses, “NO, Mommy!” when I move in for the embrace. Then she turns and bounds into her First Grade world of friends, teachers, table time, power words, recess, and yogurt parfait. Sometimes she’ll slide onto my [...]
Tags: girl social dynamics · growing up · KGOY · motherhood
HAVING TEA WITH SYLVIA PLATH
November 7th, 2011 2 Comments
The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. You hand me two children, two roses. I found this quote again yesterday. Back in college, these were my favorite lines from Sylvia Plath, though I didn’t understand the children and roses part (on any level beyond the symbolic). The “blood jet” spoke to me [...]
Tags: Creativity · Elisabeth Badinter · motherhood · poetry · Sylvia Plath · Who Does She Think She Is
VACATION… all i ever wanted
September 14th, 2011 1 Comment
August gave me a split personality. I was one woman at home, with my incessant emailing and event planning and counter-wiping—my need to enforce order on the summer chaos of our family—and another woman entirely on vacation, where I walked barefoot on piney paths, swam the icy salt waters of Maine, lay down with my [...]
Tags: Maine · motherhood · stress · summer vacation · vacation
BACK IN THE SADDLE
September 5th, 2011 3 Comments
It’s 10 pm on a Monday night and I’m still online, keeping my new vow to BLOG AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK. This summer I slipped out of the blogging habit (which honestly had never been impressive) due to… well, having the girls out of school and the general, beautiful craziness of summer. Keeping up [...]
Tags: back to school · motherhood · mothering guilt · summer
Of Mice and Moms
May 3rd, 2011 3 Comments
It’s Friday afternoon before April vacation, and I’m loading up the car with bulging folders of artwork, spare mittens, muddy socks, naptime bedding, and a glass cage of mice. On a whim, I’ve volunteered to take home Buster and Harriet, the preschool pets. I’d like to be the kind of mom (laid-back, yet nurturing) who [...]
Tags: hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy · mice · motherhood · rodents
Three-peat?
April 13th, 2011 1 Comment
I wake from a nightmare at dawn, tangled in damp sheets. I was pregnant, just starting to show. Tired, swollen, and depressed, I wanted to go hiking to boost my mood, but I was ravenous and needed to eat something first. All I could find was a fluorescent buffet bar in a hotel lobby, loaded [...]
Tags: babies · family · how many kids? · motherhood · siblings
The Writing Life in The Baby Cave
March 31st, 2011 No Comments
All of you know that I haven’t exactly taken to the blogosphere like a duck to water. I don’t have a SmartPhone or do Twitter (yet). There are over two million Mommy bloggers on the web and some of them are even making a living at it, and a very few of them (ie, Heather Armstrong [...]
Tags: Her Circle Ezine · motherhood · Parenting · Writing
Sick Day
March 3rd, 2011 No Comments
Just when I’m getting pumped to step clean out of The Baby Cave– one high-heel stiletto boot at a time– and paradoxically going dewy-eyed over other’s people’s plump babies, the hormonal zeal for yet more procreation fueling my third-child fantasies– we get hit with a Tummy Bug. First my three-year-old falls asleep on Sunday afternoon, [...]
Tags: motherhood · mothering guilt · Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy · sick · The Baby Cave
School, Glorious School
October 1st, 2010 1 Comment
When my girls were younger, I used to fantasize about the day I’d drop them both off at school. Deep in the Baby Cave, caught in the throes of colic, this vision seemed like something out of a science fiction novel– a strange yet beautiful new planet. “Be careful,” warned my therapist. “Some parents end [...]
Tags: homeschooling · kindergarten · motherhood · Neighborhood Schoolhouse · preschool · school