Archive for 'After The Bubbly'
If I had Tweeted my labor
Posted on 28. Feb, 2010 by admin.
I ‘m a little addicted to my social networks, especially Facebook. I’m not alone. In fact, the editor of this very magazine used Facebook to keep her friends and family updated on her progress in bringing baby Holden Enderle into the world. I love these updates so much they almost make me wish I could [...]
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Rise of My Machines
Posted on 31. Jan, 2010 by admin.
We are dependent on machines: hair dryer, coffee pot, television, thermostat, washer, dryer, Toyota, microwave. Too many to list, right? And sometimes—like after my family watches The Matrix for the 412th time—I wonder if we’re not getting a little too used to the electrical and mechanical conveniences, if we’re not getting just a little too [...]
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My New Year’s Anti-Resolution
Posted on 31. Dec, 2009 by admin.
Self Improvement is overrated. This year instead of vowing to be better and then letting myself down two weeks later, I’m taking a different approach. I’m making anti-resolutions. That way if I succeed I’m successful, and if I fail I’m successful too. I Resolve to gain weight. This should be a fun one. Who wants to [...]
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10 Things That Could Go Wrong While Baking
Posted on 26. Nov, 2009 by admin.
I make comments in my cookbooks when I try recipes—things like ‘excellent,’ ‘needs more salt,’ and ‘kids loved it.’ What I wrote after a recent traumatic cake baking experience is not suitable for publication. If my cookbooks survive me, it will be a testament to my grandchildren of their grandmother’s battle with baked goods. I [...]
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November Turkey
Posted on 31. Oct, 2009 by admin.
In the third grade, my son’s class put on a Thanksgiving program. Imagine my pride at having him appear as both a turkey and a rapper, reading the essay he wrote about being thankful for his education. We value overachievement here. As it turned out, he wasn’t the only one expected to perform. Two weeks before [...]
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When You Want to Run Away
Posted on 30. Aug, 2009 by admin.
When I was a kid, I never wanted to run away and join the circus. Now that I’m older, I get it. Although it’s not my dream to tame lions or become the bearded lady, I understand the lure of escaping to some exotic life where the tightrope you walk is literal as opposed to [...]
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Car Trouble
Posted on 01. Jun, 2009 by admin.
A couple of summers ago, I was unloading an obscene amount of groceries when I noticed a thick pink substance on the garage floor. Pink lemonade maybe? But it appeared to be coming from inside the car. After I got my dairy and frozen goods out of the sweltering trunk, I dipped my finger into [...]
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Get Busted. I Dare You.
Posted on 30. Apr, 2009 by admin.
When my kids were little, their doctor busted me. “Anyone in the house smoke?” she asked. “No,” I said, totally telling the truth. “Mom!” My five-year-old daughter looked at me wide-eyed, as if I’d said a bad word. Then she turned from me to her new role model, the kind and presumably honest lady doctor. “My dad [...]
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The Case of the Easter Bunny
Posted on 29. Mar, 2009 by admin.
I admit it: I can hardly wait until the days when the Easter Bunny no longer hops by our house. It’s not that I don’t like holidays, I just can’t take the pressure of having to be responsible for making them happen. And the trouble with children is that you can’t pull much over on [...]
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Making Babies… Oh the Glamour
Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by admin.
I had my last baby when I was thirty. And when I say last, I mean that’s it. I won’t be one of those women taking prenatal vitamins and Boniva at the same time. I don’t have the energy. I waited until the ripe old age of twenty-eight to have my first child, then followed [...]
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The New Birthday Plan
Posted on 01. Feb, 2009 by admin.
Dear Son, I’m writing to tell you about an exciting change we’ll be making in regard to birthdays this year! Because this is a big birthday year for me (rhymes with shorty), and because you’re such a big boy now, and frankly because I’m a little worn out with the whole kids’ birthday scene, we’re going to [...]
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Cut Costs Starting with the Toothfairy
Posted on 02. Jan, 2009 by admin.
If you’re feeling the sting of the economic crisis, the credit crunch, or just plastic cuts from your own holiday spending, consider cutting back on child related costs this year. Examine your budget carefully, then wisely wield your scalpel. Vow this year to say no to peer pressure of the imaginary kind. You just may [...]
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Forgive Us Our Sins
Posted on 28. Nov, 2008 by admin.
Shortly after we moved to a small Texas town, thanks to my husband’s job transfer, we decided our eighteen-month old daughter needed saving– as in baptism. We visited several congregations before finally settling on a quaint Episcopal church. After a respectable period of near-weekly attendance, we asked the rector to perform the rite on our [...]
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Puppy Love
Posted on 29. Oct, 2008 by admin.
i’m no dog person. I certainly never wanted a puppy. So you can imagine my surprise when I brought home a puppy. It all started with an Italian Greyhound I met in line for my latte at Barnes & Noble. This dog was my soul mate, but the owner would not take a child in [...]
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Fear the Bunny
Posted on 30. Sep, 2008 by admin.
Every year my kids ceremoniously choose their latest Halloween costumes. And every year since they were about four they have insisted that those costumes be different than the ones they wore the year before. As if anyone would ever remember. But okay. Off we go to Wal-Mart to find something good. Wait a minute – [...]
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We are not the ‘Joneses’
Posted on 05. Jul, 2008 by admin.
Summer in our corner of the world is filled with sunscreen, backyard barbeque, and Jonsein’ to be the Joneses. Decks are primed and stained, cars washed and waxed, lawns tended to like favorite children. In our idyllic neighborhood, we share banana breads and casseroles, watch each other’s children, and mill around one [...]
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Let Them Eat Cake
Posted on 05. Jul, 2008 by admin.
Apparently Marie Antoinette never even said it, but I will. I’m talking birthday parties. Forego the fancy and just let them eat cake. When my daughter was three, she went to a party at a gymnastics studio – one of those event parties that serve the dual purposes of placating the spoiled rottens for two hours [...]
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