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The Musical Divide, Part I: Mother Knows Best. 2007-03-07 00:03:00 I remember when I was little there was a rule in my dad's car: My car, my music. He was a big fan of classical, opera and country and as tortuous as it was at the time, I have to say that if it weren't for him I may never have been able to tell the difference between Beethoven and Bach, or heard the exquisite voice of Maria Callas. Or appreciated the sage words of wisdom from Johnny Paycheck as Read more:Musical
, Divide
(Flower) Girl Power. 2007-03-09 21:12:00 My brother is getting married in exactly eight days, and seeing as Kiyomi is the flower girl I figured it was about time I thought about getting her a dress. My future sister-in-law is a fairly calm person, but I could sense a little concern in her voice when she asked me a few weeks ago at her shower if I had thought about getting Kiyomi a dress yet. If it had even entered my mind. If I had Read more:Girl Power
Damn You Weekend Warriors. 2007-03-13 09:37:00 I ran into a neighbor recently and she was excited to tell me about a new tile store she had found that morning on the way home from her kids' soccer games. She went into detail about their amazing selection and what she had bought there to start on her home project that afternoon. I listened in amazement, not because of her hand-carved Tunisian quartz backsplash she was describing but because Read more:Weekend
, Warriors
, Weekend Warriors
Married With Children. 2007-03-22 02:00:00 They said "I Do."
My brother got married on Saturday and I have to say it was one of the most beautiful weddings I've been to. Aside from the breathtaking location - an inn sitting on a cliff overlooking the ocean - it was the sentiments expressed by their children that made this one so memorable. This is the second marriage for both of them, and each have adult children by their previous Read more:Children
Yes, That's What I Keep Trying To Tell Your Father. 2007-03-27 06:10:00 It's become enormously entertaining to watch television with our girls these days, especially shows that depict any kind of romantic interaction. They'll be contently engrossed in a show, their eyes glazed over and their lips wrapped around a juice box when the appearance of a romantic interlude will send them into a frenzy. They start by hissing when the hand holding begins and then grow more Read more:Father
A Penny For Your Thoughts? What About A Nickel To Make Your Bed? 2007-03-29 10:45:00 I don't remember getting a regular allowance when I was growing up, and I don't recall having many chores. I'm the youngest of five, and it's my theory that by the time I was born my parents just got tired of trying to make their children into productive members of society. My three brothers were subjected to a rigorous routine of lawn mowing and trash detail and under my mom's guidance my Read more:Penny
, Nickel
That Blog Girl Awards Her Perfect Post. 2007-04-02 22:26:00 A few weeks ago I had lunch with a client and she brought along a friend of hers - let's call her, oh, Trout Lady. No particular reason - just an image that came to mind. Trout Lady owns an up-and-coming restaurant nearby and wasted no time in making sure I was aware of this. She then spent practically the entire meal showing off her vast, vast knowledge of all things food. Why, Trout Lady was Read more:Awards
, Perfect
The Post Where I Coin The Phrase "Mother Of All Time-Suckers." 2007-04-04 10:45:00 Rigel is out tonight, holed up in a studio somewhere with his bandmates putting the finishing touches on their demo. They got a great response to their two shows last year at B.B Kings Blues Club and decided to record some of their songs. Mostly they're just doing it for themselves and maybe to send out to clubs to get more bookings, although let's face it - it's all starting to sound like Read more:Phrase
One Step Away From A Hairnet And A Housecoat. 2007-04-10 22:03:00 I was talking to a friend last week and she started telling me how she had driven her kids to school that morning while still wearing her pajamas. I'm so envious of this - my girls are younger and I still have to park and walk them onto campus every morning. This means I need to at least pull on a decent pair of pants, although I can keep my pajama top on as long as I cover it with a jacket. Read more:One Step
Wishing We Could Hunt Eggs Forever. 2007-04-13 03:15:00 We spent the last part of our Spring Break as the guests of good friends of ours who own a ranch a few hours outside of L.A. They've refurbished three small houses on their property into charming guest cottages, and we had an entire house all to ourselves along with a beautiful, unobstructed view of a lake. As if all of that wasn't perfect enough, our hosts drove their own espresso machine all Read more:Wishing
, Forever
If She Can Play A Cowbell He Might Consider It. 2007-04-16 21:31:00 A few months ago I wrote about losing our pet cat, Mookie. Even though she was an ornery thing who had attacked and scratched every one of us and all of our friends and family members, we still loved her just the same. The girls had grown especially close to her and took her loss very hard, although up until three years ago they were afraid to get near her because of her frequent and
Daddy's Girls, Now With More Megahertz! 2007-04-20 02:30:00 In the last two weeks we celebrated both Kira and Rigel's birthdays. Kira turned eleven, and Rigel turned - well, older than that. I don't see any need to reveal too much here about his age, especially seeing as he is a whole four months younger than me. It's not a big age difference, but I still like to think of us as one of those modern couples with an Ashton Kutcher/Demi Moore kind of thing Read more:Daddy
, Girls
NEW!! Sweatpantsmom Cleans AND Disinfects! 2007-04-23 11:15:00 Come and visit my new site, Views From The Pants, where I'll be reviewing products, restaurants, books and movies and giving unsolicited, rarely useful advice on a variety of topics.
Today is my first review, where I'll be talking about my adventures using Cozi Central, a free web-based organizing program. Don't miss the excitement as I give you rare insight into my grocery shopping list and
A Not-So-Sporting Life. 2007-04-26 10:37:00 I was hovering around the snack table at a birthday party recently and started talking to a woman whose daughter was the same age as Kira. We both thought we had seen each other before and tried to figure out where our paths might have crossed. She mentioned some activities we possibly had in common: Soccer league? Summer softball? Basketball camp? I told her it was highly unlikely she had seen Read more:Sporting
April Showers Bring...Babies. 2007-04-29 06:03:00 I love a good party. So when Catherine, Kristen, Julie and Nancy invited me to my very first virtual Baby Shower for Liz (Mom-101), Christina (A Mommy Story) and Tammie (Soul Gardening) - I immediately RSVP'd 'yes.' But then I started thinking about the finger-sandwich platter I wouldn't get to attack, and the rum-spiked punch I wouldn't be able to chug and then pass out from. And what about Read more:April
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, Babies
, April Showers
My Dog Ate My Homework And Then A Dingo Stole My Baby. 2007-05-01 20:31:00 This happened barely three months after I got the minivan:
I was turning into a parking space at the party store when a parked SUV I was pulling in next to inexplicably came to life, moved to the left and dented my fender. I know! Weird! I remember being so upset that I forgot to buy the tiki torches.
When I got home Rigel said, "So, you mean you hit a parked car?" in that accusatory voice Read more:Homework
, Stole
My Breakfast With Hayden Panettiere Turned Me Into A Sci-Fi Fan. 2007-05-05 07:52:00 Okay, we didn't actually eat together. But I did do a phone interview with the Heroes star the other morning for an upcoming issue of Genlux magazine, and at least one of us was eating breakfast. Never mind that it was just me sucking down a mug of coffee and gnawing on a piece of rock-hard toast. And the fact that we weren't in the same room - just a technicality! And as I asked her questions Read more:Breakfast
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, Panettiere
, Hayden Panettiere
Nuthin But A Name Thang. 2007-05-10 21:33:00 Recently the girls and their bandmates - another pair of sisters - changed the name of their band. They decided that The Sunflower Sisters was too soft, not edgy enough for the rocker grrrl image they're working. They decided on Off Limits, and as far as Rigel and the other dad are concerned this is the perfect name for their daughters, four beautiful tween girls who should certainly remain
Everybody Needs A Secret Edimer. 2007-05-18 03:10:00 Kiyomi came running up to me after school the other day, clutching a piece of paper. Then she thrust it at me defiantly, standing there with one hand on her hip, tapping her foot and rolling her eyes. I think she saw me do this very same thing when I was trying to return a year-old vase at Target the week before.
"Look at this," she said. "A boy gave this to Hannah to give to me. He's a first Read more:Everybody
, Needs
, Everybody Needs
The Artist Formerly Known As Relevant. 2007-05-23 11:20:00 I remember when I first heard Prince on the radio. It was his first single, "I Wanna Be Your Lover," and I think I yelled out an enthusiastic "Me too!" and rushed out to buy his album. (Yes, it was vinyl. Yes, I'm old. If you must know, I remember buying it with the money I made from selling those wooly mammoth skins I had stored in my cave.) I didn't really care that he looked like he had Read more:Artist
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, Relevant
Blog Envy. 2007-05-31 16:25:00 Being a designer, I've played around with the look of my blog over the past couple of years. I've designed new headers, added crap to my sidebar and even managed to figure out how to add a third column to my page, which I'm surprised no one has contacted the Nobel committee about since I'm pretty sure they have a category for that type of thing. Hell, I can even make type bold, colored and
Little Fashionistas Duke It Out. 2007-05-29 19:29:00 Do your kids bicker? Mine do. So when they started arguing in the supermarket today I tried to ignore it, figuring they'd work it out between themselves. I was getting pretty tired of trying to help them negotiate whose turn it was to push the cart, or whether the Strawberry Kiwi juice boxes were better than the Minute Maid lemonades. But then I noticed it was getting a little heated so I Read more:Fashionistas
For Will. 2007-06-01 04:51:00 Around a year ago my good friend Alex sent me a link to a blog. It was written by a friend of hers, a father who was chronicling the life of his then two-year-old son Will, who had been diagnosed with Neuroblastoma (NB) when he was seven-months old. While it was heartbreaking to read, I was immediately struck by how Will's father Patrick wrote with such clarity and eloquence about his son's
Self-Promotion Is The New Black 2007-06-06 08:09:00 My apologies if I haven't visited your blog in awhile, or left one of my rambling comments, or haven't dropped you an email complaining about how your sidebar isn't centered. I've been pretty busy, and this is the reason:
I'm one of the bloggers on FameCrawler, the new celebrity gossip site on Babble.com. It's tons of fun, but I've spent so much time trolling celebrity and gossip websites Read more:Black
The L.A. Blogger Party: We Laughed, We Cried, We Hugged Awkwardly. 2007-06-04 19:29:00 Saturday night was the big L.A. BloggerParty
organized by L.A. Daddy. Rigel was brave enough to accompany me, and was happy to see there were some non-bloggers there to commiserate with. I think they formed their very own focus group there called, "What's The Big Goddamned Deal About Blogging Anyways?" I could see them all over in the corner, knocking back beers and pounding their fists on
Fade To Black? How Bout I Kick Your Ass? 2007-06-14 01:45:00 A few years ago Rigel brought home a John Sayles movie, Limbo, for the two of us to watch. We'd liked a few of his previous ones - Lone Star and City of Hope - so we thought this one sounded interesting. Three people marooned on a desert island! One of them is David Strathairn! If that doesn't sound like pure entertainment I don't know what is.
I can't really put into words how awful this Read more:Black
Next Week's Summer Activity For The Kiddies? Physics! 2007-06-22 20:28:00 Summer vacation officially starts today. I've written before about my girls' aversion to organized summer activities - summer camps, drama classes, craft workshops and their ilk. Add to that my poor organizational skills and it makes for one long summer, endless days where the highlight may be the occasional journey to a warehouse store for crates of toilet paper or the exciting trip to the Read more:Summer
, Activity
, Physics
Bursting... 2007-06-20 21:32:00 ...with pride. My little girl graduated from elementary school today. She gave a commencement speech in front of three-hundred people. Received the Presidential Award for Academic Excellence, and a letter from the President. (Had to explain to both girls that it's still okay not to like him.) Maintained a 4.0 average all through her elementary years. Just accepted into the Honors Program at
Maybe This is Where The Term "Feather Brained" Comes From 2007-06-28 05:15:00 A couple of weeks ago I was making one of my exciting forays to the grocery store and decided to buy one of those mammoth Valu-Paks of chicken breasts, the ones that come on a styrofoam tray that's so huge you can use it for a boogie board after you're done. They were on sale, and I was so excited I spent the rest of my supermarket outing daydreaming of all the creative ways I'd be using that Read more:Maybe
Back From Vacay: I'm Not Dead, But I Sure Look Like I Am. 2007-08-03 15:05:00 It's been a long time, over a month, since I last posted. That's the longest I've been away from this blog, and thanks to all of you who asked where I was and if I was okay. I'm fine, with the exception of being incredibly exhausted from the girls being off of school, hosting out-of-town guests for ten days straight, having some remodeling done on our bedroom, trashing celebrities and hosting a Read more:Vacay
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