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Wherein the extended family grills you about work 2008-03-09 14:47:33 I see my immediate family regularly. Like every three weeks regularly. However, I see our extended family way less often. Like once a year often. What brings us together are those typical family events like weddings, showers, funerals (the worst kind of events), you know, those events where your saving grace is having a full glass [...]
At least she’s honest - Julianna Margulies on being a working mom 2008-03-08 07:48:14 It’s always fun to see how celebrities are quoted about how they handle motherhood and work. So when I came across this story in USA Today I couldn’t resist quoting yet the newest working
mom on the block - Julianna Margulies, who’s starring in a new show, Canterbury’s Law, this Monday night. In the series, [...] Read more:least
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A rant about the birthday party plans for my two-year-old 2008-03-05 21:17:31 I’ll be the first to admit it - I can’t seem to throw my son a low-key birthday party. I didn’t write about this topic here last year because I was embarrassed at the extravaganza that was my son’s first birthday party. Now, I didn’t go to the lengths that these parents did to entertain [...] Read more:plans
The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom - Is it reality? 2008-03-04 15:03:54 I just finished watching the premiere episode of TLC’s new show, “The Secret Life of a Soccer
Mom,” and I have to be honest - I liked it way more than I thought I would. I knew plenty about the show after talking to the host, Tracey Gold, yesterday, but typically I don’t let my DVR record things [...] Read more:reality
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From Growing Pains to Working Mom Role Model: An Interview with Tracey Gold 2008-03-03 15:08:28 I remember Tracey
Gold most from her days as Carol Seaver on the ’80s hit “GrowingPains
.” But Tracey, with her long career in acting, is much more than just a teenage superstar. Mother of three (with one on the way in 3 1/2 weeks!), Tracey has been through more ups and downs as a woman than anyone [...] Read more:Role Model
A sign I’m really fitting into this SAHM role 2008-03-02 15:47:09 I just issued a directive to my husband but called him by my son’s name.
Clearly, I’m spending too much time at home. Or, that I’m finally turning into my mother. I gotta do something about that.
p.s. I’m so excited because I’m interviewing someone famous tomorrow about something pretty cool! Stay tuned - it’s about time [...] Read more:fitting
Self-Made Hussein Mom 2008-03-01 14:55:30 Even though I’m still holding out hope that Hillary will come out the winner this week, I think when politicians do things like this it’s dumb, dumb, dumb. So I’m supporting the Momocrats’ new meme which hopes to end silly attempts to gain political advantage by racism. Because of course I’ll vote for whoever the Democratic candidate ends [...] Read more:Hussein
Key learnings after being on vacation for 10 days 2008-02-28 15:03:21 1) Even if they are super cute, on major sale and look ski-slope chic, do NOT wear fur-lined boots on an airplane while chasing a two-year-old. Your feet will get very hot. Like I need to take a cold shower when I got home hot.
I think I’m still hot.
2) Coming back from vacation to your SAHM [...]
Text message remorse and rules to remember 2008-02-25 06:00:54 In trying to figure out the best way to make, contact and keep new SAHM friends, I have to remind myself that everyone’s communication preferences are different. My preferred method of communication is still e-mail - a holdover from my working mom days. But e-mails are harder to come by and typically the slowest method of communicating [...] Read more:remorse
The Memory Book 2008-02-22 08:55:52 Long before the advent of digital cameras, phones with video and the internet, my parents would tell us to record the experiences of our youth to our memory. My dad would instruct us, “put it in the memory book.”
On our various sojourns to the western-most parts of the country we’d pass by the huge mountains [...] Read more:Memory
Well, my nanny can’t sing The Beatles like Brooke, but… 2008-03-12 21:43:02 … she can draw a mean naranja.
Like being a kick-ass singer on American Idol is a good excuse to quit a nanny job. I mean, please.
Brooke
, there’s a job waiting for you should you want to go back to wiping butts instead of a big record deal.
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It must be the middle of March in Chicago 2008-03-12 07:01:04 It’s that time of year in the frosty Midwest. We all think it’s finally warm enough to take our kids to the park.
It’s 40 degrees outside.
On another note, I won’t be going to the park today, because Charlene invited me and other Chicago
Mom Bloggers to a really cool mom’s event at a swanky hotel [...] Read more:middle
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I’m not going to start worrying, yet. 2008-03-11 14:19:53 As you know, we’re nearing the two year birthday mark, which can only mean two things: only a handful of my friends have RSVP’d yet (where ARE you guys?) and people are starting to talk about preschool. Admittedly, the preschool application process in Chicago isn’t as daunting as it is in New York as described [...] Read more:not going
My mom’s SAHM comeback 2008-03-10 15:19:44 I don’t like to talk too much about my family here, but I’m so proud of my mom that I think her recent comeback
is worth a post. See, my mom spent the better part of mine and my brother’s childhood working at home. She dabbled with her art, but turned down a job at [...]
Too early to bed, too early to rise 2008-03-13 21:45:05 My husband goes to bed earlier than my friend’s almost-three-year-old. He’s got a good excuse for it. He likes to start his day early so he can get home by dinner and spend what precious time he has in his busy schedule with my son and I.
Trouble is, the evenings are my awake time. My [...]
The crush 2008-03-17 14:30:39 One of the strangest things for me about being a SAHM is who else is around and about during daylight hours. When I was working, of course, most of the other people I would see coming and going were in the same boat as me - commuting to downtown, grabbing a bite on a lunch break, [...] Read more:crush
Just when I thought the Mommy Wars debate was dying off… 2008-03-16 16:04:04 It seems to have reared its ugly head all over the internet and blogosphere again. I’m all for ending the Mommy
Wars, but I’m also all for people articulating their feelings and points of view on the topic. To get a sense of how heated this debate still is, you should all check out the interesting discussions on [...] Read more:thought
Mama’s got a brand-new gig 2008-03-19 16:03:47 No, I didn’t go back to work or anything crazy like that, but I did take on an assignment that has deadlines and everything! I’m going to be writing for Work It! Mom’s newest blog, Moms on Issues. I’ll be tag teaming with esteemed blogger Veronica, writing about all the social and political issues moms face [...]
Marketing to Mom Mania Month, lots of links and PR rants 2008-03-20 08:46:51 There must be something in the air, because in the last month I was invited to three events, and pitched for a gazillion others.
I think the internet is coming down with a case of mom marketing mania.
I’m not complaining here. It’s actually quite funny for me. Someone out there thinks I’m influential enough to send [...] Read more:Marketing
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My final thought on this Disney thing 2008-03-22 09:58:31 I try to live my life seeing the good in people. We are not perfect. We make mistakes and say things we don’t mean and don’t think before we act. I have definitely done this before in my life many times.
That’s what I want to believe with this whole Disney
-event-over-Passover thing. That it was some [...] Read more:thought
Facebook friend follies 2008-03-24 14:12:45 If you’ve ever felt like being on Facebook
is like being in junior high again, read this recent article by Mary Schmich of the Chicago Tribune. I hadn’t over-analyzed my own Facebook middle school experiences until I got to this part of her article, which said:
As a Facebook neophyte, instinct told me, you don’t want to add [...] Read more:friend
In preparation for the big day 2008-03-29 09:30:37 Where has this week gone? Oh yeah, the weekend of the birthday party is upon me. Tactics to prepare for the onslaught of 22 two-year-olds and eight out-of-town family members include:
The obligatory pre-birthday haircut. Kiddie salon inadequate for birthday hair styling.
Only a $25 haircut by mommy’s stylist will do for the birthday boy.
The delivery of several [...] Read more:preparation
Don’t you forget about me 2008-04-01 20:53:56 It seems like everybody everywhere is packing up right now for that “Baby” event thing in New Jersey, Blogher business, or something else fun that doesn’t involve kids. There are parties for cool websites and mom friends I hope to meet one day.
I still feel I have lots to say about topics like this, but I’m [...]
The ghosts of work-life past 2008-03-31 19:17:49 I’ve had some close encounters of the working kind in the past week. Remarkably, since I left my job, I’ve had little to do with my former coworkers. It’s not out of spite or anything. (Although I’m sure they wouldn’t appreciate me calling them at 1 pm while they’re at their computers and I’ve just finished [...] Read more:ghosts
Things I don’t expect to see while on vacation 2008-04-07 09:46:12 A snowstorm in April:
This is not what I call “spring skiing.”
A random product I reviewed a long time ago (so long that I can’t even find it in my archives) staring at me from the bar where I was enjoying a drink called, “The Geisha.”
To my knowledge, Gloves in a Bottle is NOT a key [...]
A blogversary not my own 2008-04-13 23:09:41 I don’t think I celebrated the one-year anniversary of my blog last fall, so instead, I’m going to give a blog “toast” to another.
Work It! Mom turns one this week, and in celebration is having a week-long birthday bash fit with great giveaways!
This is much, much better than anything I could have provided my small [...]
48 hours 2008-04-13 14:07:24 Why is it that whenever you return from a vacation (this one being childless to boot) it only takes 48 hours for the vacation euphoria to wear off?
Forty-eight hours post such a vacation and already I’ve been to Target, the grocery store, done umpteen loads of laundry, changed a number of indescribably smelly diapers, cooked dinner, [...]
It’s been one of those days 2008-04-15 14:22:21 First, I hear that a 150 lb. cougar was shot dead no more than 3 blocks from my house.
Then, I decided to go to the post office. On tax day. With 4 large boxes, 20 thank you notes and a screaming toddler in a stroller. And you ask, did anyone offer to hold open the [...]
No title 2008-04-17 14:20:05 Herein lies my latest dilemma: I finally get a writing assignment from a respectable local publication, I get knee deep into it, and realize that I still don’t like stress and deadlines.
It all sounds good the way the experts tell you to do it. “Stay in the mix!” “Keep your options open!” “Do a little something on [...]
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