when you're feeling a bit off, and it seems like there's nothing that can shake you out of your funk. Well, friends, on that day, try belting out a 10pm duet of Suddenly Seymour with the person you love. Just trust me. It will make it all better. With Sweet Understa-aaa-nding. Or, you know, so I've heard.
Greatness/the past few days
Some things are good. Other things are great. Getting to come home from a wonderful morning of teaching, only to find my sister and daughter playing dress-up together, my little girl decked out in gold chains and over-sized purple shades, feels great. "Sorry, but you can't dress her up as well as I can," my baby sister said to me. "That's ...
And Oh, those summer nights.
dirty piggies and porch swings and all.
Today, I cried. In Ikea.
Originally Published on Little Four Eyes Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve grown to love my baby girl’s glasses. They help her, they are a tangible solution to a small problem, and they look so darn cute. I’ve learned to love them so much, that I have stopped thinking about them. I have accepted them. They have become a wonderful, valuable, ...
It’s my Blogiversary and I’ll give thanks if I want to.
Happy Blogiversary, friends! Here! I've baked you these cupcakes*! Take a bite. Put your feet up. Stay a while. Truly, it is hard for me to believe that it has been a year since I typed my first entry of Mommy, Ever After. I remember that day perfectly. What seemed like a spontaneous decision was actually born out ...
Dear Baby,
Why did you take so gosh darn long to fall asleep tonight? Was it the 2 1/2 hour afternoon nap, snuggled up under the cool white sheets with Mommy as the fan whirred above our heads? Was it the extra few bites of Mama's key lime cupcake? Is a sugar high to blame? Were the songs from our ...
Hooray!
For pretty Summer days, For pretty gold toe-nail polish, For pretty rad outdoor dance parties to tunes from Rent, For pretty much everything about my pretty little dance partner.
You know you’re a mom if…(the Tuesday night’s dessert edition).
You know you're a mom if you go to fix your dessert (a key lime/greek yogurt treat. My new invention and new fave, by the by. Uh-may-zing.) and realize that you're out of graham crackers to make the crumbled graham topping, the most crucial of ingredients, so you decide to dig around in the secret stash of baby snacks in ...
A whole 13.5 months later
and the notion that we are parents to this sweet, remarkable little girl still takes our breath away. Just this afternoon, as our little girl stood up and grabbed her daddy's leg in a squishy-baby-skinned-embrace, he looked at me, his eyes round and wet, and asked me, awestricken,"Am I really her daddy? When did I become her daddy?" And ...
What’s better
than a Saturday night that starts with a cocktail made from Champagne and St. Germain, and ends with this ? Not too much, I say!
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