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 Oh the insanity! Of me, of course"Oh My God! The baby! I forgot the baby!" I was halfway down the street when those words knocked against the inside of my head and then shot out of my mouth. An elderly lady at the lights nearby chuckled...
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 Potty Training is CrapAccording to babycenter, my kid is so ready to potty train: Dry for two hour periods, like during naps: Yes! Dislikes feeling of being in dirty diapers: Yes! Demonstrates desire for independence: Yes! Yes! Yes! So, why do I want...
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 It's hard being under house arrest"It's 3 p.m. where are you?" My husband sounded like he was holding back anger. "I'm on my way. I'll be home in five minutes. I was just walking around. There's traffic," my voice was strained. "I was just being...
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 Quick...So, I don't really sleep, can't remember what I did two hours ago and feel like I'm going nuts most of the time! That said, these posts are bound to have lots of speeeeling misteaks. I'll probably use the wrong...
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 Who dresses better: a mom or a fugitive?"Hi" and "How are you?" are fine greetings, but I prefer salutations to be informative: "I have barf on my shirt!" I said, welcoming three non-mom friends into my home Friday night. They smiled at me. I also had mustard...
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 When they say "couples massage" they don't mean bring your babyEver have one of those times when you think you might go nuts? I have. Scarlett was wriggling out of her high chair yesterday morning, arching her back, flapping her small head against the unyielding plastic tray while her shrill...
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 I NEED to do somethingOn Wednesday I met an old friend - who has a daughter precisely the same age as Scarlett (two days apart) - for lunch and after we let our little girls claw and poke at one another over a sandwich...
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 Please don't tell Ted...Just before Christmas Ted sat me down and we had "the talk." "You're top up is over, Michele," my husband said with a serious, even stern look on his face, referring to the salary The Star had been paying for...
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 Siiiiiiick!!The track just wouldn't fit together the way I wanted, so I paused and looked at the train table, a hand on my hip. Crash! Hudson flung his cars at the bridge I had just delicately constructed and ruined it....
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 The second worst moment of my lifeIt was horrifying. My heart stopped beating for the entire 60 seconds I could not find Scarlett. She was snuggled into her big brother's three-sizes-too-big snowsuit, ensconced in her car seat and placed in a shopping cart at Fiesta Farms,...
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 Happy New Year! Raccoons ate my InternetCall it mother's intuition. Hudson hadn't napped all day, so when his grandmother came to pick him up for a New Year's Eve sleepover I just knew that my little boy, in the throes of an overtired tantrum (wailing, flailing...
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 Ah, grandparents.His lower lip started to quiver even before I said: "we have to go home now." I got his shoes on, but as I tried to thread reluctant arms through his ski jacket sleeves, Hudson swatted at my head and...
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 I'm laughing smugly in my quiet home.When I told a friend Ted was taking Hudson on a three day trip this weekend, leaving me home alone with Scarlett, she responded with "woohoo" for me and bid my husband "bonne chance." He needs the luck! Below, a...
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 Look - It's me, working out. Maybe avert your eyes.As punishment for gaining so much weight during pregnancy I wear a hideous, dirty green zip up sweatshirt during most of my workouts. Public ridicule makes me work harder. Check out my really gross shirt and some workout moves on...
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 Will I ever get a break?Time was I viewed my car as a mode of transportation. Now, our only vehicle - a very family un-friendly (family hostile, in fact) Mazda 3 - has become a nursing station, diaper change pad, tropical sleeping pod, where I...
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 Public nipples aren't odd anymoreWhen I dropped off Hudson at nursery school yesterday there were two little girls sitting on a bench with swaddled doll babies at their chests. "We're giving them milk!" one excited girl said. "From our boobs!" This struck me as...
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 Forgive me. I have sinned.Like Catholics, Jews are endowed with a healthy (gulf-sized) amount of guilt. That sinking feeling in the pit of my Jewish gut doesn't seem to stop me from doing bad/stupid things. However, transgressing does make me thirsty, er, feel horrible....
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 Why won't she sleep?! Seriously, I'd like to know.Putting Scarlett to sleep is like playing "Whack-a-mole" with a particularly wacky mole. By "wacky" I mean sadistic. I have put her to sleep - rocked, shushed, strolled, nursed, driven, slung, bjorned, lulled - no fewer than 14 times in...
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 Bathing suit bluesI peaked around the change room corner, took a deep breath and sprinted to the communal showers hoping no one would notice that my bathing suit didn't fit. No such luck. "Oh!" one of Hudson's teachers said, nearly colliding with...
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 Hormones to the rescue!When the officer slid past the window I threw my cellphone onto the seat and, to show I wasn't really breaking the law, grabbed the steering wheel with both hands and started talking into the air. "Pull to the side,"...
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 My little lion learned a wordHudson bounded down the steps of a pumpkin-adorned house Halloween night like a kid who, well, just left a candy store. Treats in hand, his face flush with the thrill of trick and/or treating, he looked back at the door...
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 Jealousy?"Your son is trouble!" I e mailed my husband a few days ago while he was at work. Hudson was playing upstairs with a friend when suddenly everything went quiet. Concerned, I tiptoed to his playroom and there, hiding behind...
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 Please go to sleep. Please. Please??It's 3 a.m. She's still not sleeping. I understand why public health officials tell new moms not to shake their babies. "Go to sleep! Go to sleep. Seriously kid, why are you awake??" Scarlett is screaming. If she wasn't so...
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 Meet ScarlettMeet Scarlett: Don't let the angelic smile fool you. Look past the sleepy eyes and full cheeks too. She's a tempest, just like the O'Hara, her namesake. At just under 9 pounds, and less than two feet long, she sleeps...
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 Birth: Take 2!It was almost comical. "Gimme the goddamn nitrous machine!!" I shrieked at two nurses who couldn't figure out what to do with me as I cried, screamed, threatened legal action and bit my Husband in the arm (he still has...
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