Merry Christmas Eve. Right now, I am celebrating by typing in my office (read: bed. It is so warm and cozy in here! I have THIS on my lap!) and listening to the three people whom I love the most as they play downstairs. They are playing Yo Gabba Gabba and something called Bunchems and beautiful, blessed music. I ...
Today we celebrated our Anniversary 7. It's funny; I was going to say that it was the best Anniversary that I can remember, but then I read this post from three years ago and I realize that it is impossible to even try to compare. We are absolutely and completely different people than we were when ...
Or, as I like to call it, "Why everyone who wants to be a parent someday should babysit (and not for the reasons that you think"). I know what is going through your head. You think that I am going to advise you to do a lot of babysitting before becoming a parent so that ...
I was up a lot during the night last night. I don't think I got very much sleep, and for me, that translates into an increase in anxiety. I have been told by my psychiatrist that sleep is healing for the brain, and I notice that it has a profound impact on my mental state. My ...
The incredibly touching comments that I received on my emotional day post on Facebook. The launch of the new website for Pearl Communications, my PR firm. It was actually the owner who suggested that I use Brand Revive and then ended up hiring them herself, with brilliant results. A great phonecall with my friend who told me ...
I made it no secret on here (and in my life) that I was quite nervous about expanding our family. We were a perfect triangle. I remember taking an autumn trip to the beach house with the fairy godparents and sitting on the couch for hours, literally, listing the reasons why I was scared to have another ...
that although I am in a land far, far away, where my internet connection is limited to 36 seconds a day, and my phone has not worked since Sunday, and where the rum drinks flow like.... ....you know.... I feel compelled to take the last 22 seconds of signal I have to say that at this moment, for me, happiness is spending more hours in ...
Tonight, I just so happened to have stumbled upon a post I wrote 9 months ago, called stats, in which I detailed her most recent milestones, in exchange for my inability to articulate how I felt about her turning 9 months old. Well, guess what? another 9 months have passed. This week, we celebrated her 18 month birthday. And no, ...
I was the neatest mom ever. I always had time to straighten my hair and my car was clean and crumb free. Last night, as I loaded my little girl into her carseat, I noticed that my backseat is now overflowing with books and toys, laced with cheerio crumbs and decapitated goldfish remnants, and filled with things like stray ...
Here I am. I'm back from a wri-atus of sorts. You see, it was nearly a month ago now that I made the decision to close the door to this chapter. Not because I didn't love writing my "ever after". I did. I loved chronicling my days with my little one; I loved the intimate relationship I was able to develop ...
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