Babble

For the first time in my life I have a commitment problem.    See, my life has changed in the past 2 months.  My darling daughter has gone from sleeping 3 hours each afternoon to sometimes sleeping 2 hours, or 1.5 hours, or not at all.  Do you know what that means?  It means that I have no time to eat.  Or to ...

About a year ago we were at a birthday party in the park when cupcakes were being distributed.  Just as one was coming around to Mamie, I cut off the hand that was going to feed her.    ''She can't have that,'' I said.   ''Why what's wrong with her?,'' a woman asked, mildly pissed.  The notes in her voice suggested ...

It's hard being a new parent.  I reflect on this a lot, even though my daughter is two years old now.  I will never, ever forget those first few months, I mean that whole first year.  I am still catching up on lost sleep from that time.  I had no idea what I was doing and yet I wanted to do it all myself.  I would look at ...

It's preschool interview day!  Time to do your tricks, kid.  Three half days at $783,000 a semester shall be yours if you do.  Shine!  Shine!  Shine for Mommy, ok?   We arrive at 1:00PM, the universal nap time for 99.9% of toddlers.  Since the nap would invariably be skipped, I picked up a latte for her (don't ...

This was today's choice:  either let Mamie scream her lungs out in her crib (''Mommy, Mommy, no crib, BED, no pee, no poop, BED, Mommeeeeeeeee....'' -- nice of her to let me know there was no pee or poop going on, dontcha think?) or go into her after 15 minutes of that, plop her down on the tempurpedic and watch her put herself out in 2.2 ...