Booty, boobies, and mac’n’cheese
Today’s light reading:
The Bunny Vs the Blue Box (Salon):
Annie’s Homegrown Macaroni & Cheese has pretty much achieved world domination — at least if your world is populated by the chronologically challenged. Refueling Gabriel, Rebekka, Isaac and Yazmin after a grueling toddler networking session? The well-stocked mom breaks out the Annie’s. Three-course dinner with (mucho) wine […]
Mommy drinks, but not because you cry
So! Owen and I watched the Today Show yesterday morning, on which Melissa Summers was invited to talk about whether “cocktail playdates” are appropriate. Basically, Meredith Vieira was asking, is it ever OK for a mother to drink in the presence of her children? (story)
Unfortunately for mothers everywhere, the piece was quite biased. And […]
patchwork + new fabric = crazy delicious
new patchwork pillow
Permission to skip this boring missive: Granted
Re: The View: Rosie doesn’t bother me at all. You know who bothers me? Elizabeth. The young, conservative one. I really like the one with the N.Y. accent, but I forget her name. And I am LOVING that Tina Fey is guest-hosting. Sweet.
Re: Lunch: I would like to eat one of the following:
grilled cheese from […]
Hateration, hibernation
Like other animals, when gestating I feel an urge to withdraw into a dark, private den, pop up some popcorn, and watch prime time television. I find the solitude soothing.
It’s nothing personal, it’s merely biological imperative, eons of mammalian evolution imposing itself on my sodium-saturated person. My DNA is telling me to make my habitat […]
Protected: A short tale of midgetry
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Nesting, and obsessed with making things
Somebody stop me. Please. I can’t sleep at night.
I may be a big fat liberal hippie snob …
But I’m a CHEAP big fat liberal hippie snob.
Which is why I went to Wal-Mart today, breaking a four-year boycott. My sister-in-law passed the word that Wal-mart was considering closing its fabric department and had super-cheap fabric for sale, so I just had to find out for myself. My stash is growing stale, and Pregnancy […]
I’m growing a person
It’s why come daily life seems so overwhelming to me sometimes. Also, why I need elastic waist pants. And why I’m so tired all the time. And why I’m intensely interested in bagels today. And why network television makes me cry. And why I wish I had a journal in which to write “Nobody UNDERSTANDS […]









