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Mommy’s Law:

(n.) An adage or maxim that states that as soon as one thinks that everything is going wonderfully, something must occur to knock one down a peg, or two. For instance, take this morning: Our day started out beautifully. I woke up early, got dressed and set off for a morning walk to our favorite bagel shop, with my husband, ...

morning, sunshine.

This morning, not too long after the sun rose in the sky, I crept into my parents' bedroom, and placed the baby in bed, nestled in between her Bubbie and Zayde Bear. From my room I can hear giggles and squeals escaping from the doorway, "You are my Sunshine", an impeccable Grover impersonation, and more "I love you"s than I ...

Mommy’s got a question for ya.

It's about freckles. You see, this summer has been a bit more indoorsy than usual. That's what you get when you mix a new baby + excessive excessive heat warnings + my husband's skin tone, which I would describe as beige (OK, just off-white, but I'm being kind.) And so, my normal sprinkling of freckles have been kept ...

It was night and some fireflies danced around the moon. -Eric Carle

open sesame!

One year ago, my little baby was the size of a sesame seed. Today, I ate a sesame seed bagel. Actually, it was a strawberry bagel, but that doesn't sound quite as romantic, now does it? Oh, and speaking of the past.... My dogter, Lola, got stuck in the garage today for a grand total of 7 minutes, which was enough ...

A typical morning in the Land of Mom.

You know those mornings, when you get to sleep until 8, and wake up, in your favorite, freshly washed pair of jammies, and walk into the bathroom to find that your hair, which can have a life of it's own, in these warm, summer months, has dried into pretty, soft, curls, and you feel kind of good about yourself, so you grab your ...

Memories

Maybe it's a new mom thing; Maybe it's because I'm trying to hold onto every moment, to take in every everything about every minute, as time seems to be racing by; Maybe it's just me, but, just this week, I've been overcome and overwhelmed by memories. They keeps sneaking up on me. Like when I was searching around in the lazy susan in the ...

So far, the most awkward moment of my day

occurred when I was strolling along, pushing my baby in her baby-car-seat-stroller (not to be confused with her big girl stroller. It was windy. She needed more coverage, today.) and happened upon a toddler in the exact same outfit that my daughter was wearing. I, of course, ran up to the little girl, who was sitting ...

When I named my daughter after a Disney Princess,

I didn't take this into consideration. It can get really bad. Yes, I am slowly bankrupting myself one plastic tsotchke at a time.

And, the winner for the greatest question of all, goes to…

Yesterday, when I wrote about questions, I mistakenly left out the most fantasticallyawful question of all. Let me set the scene for you: It was my birthday. I was 39 weeks pregnant. My belly was so large under my tank-top that someone described my shirt as having to "work really hard". Put it this way: I was giving Baby Housman a ...