James & Jax

I feel like a bad mom today. I know it isn’t true, but I still keep hearing those two words in my head. Yesterday was a rough one. If you follow me on Twitter, you may have heard me talking about my husband’s Seven Fishes dinner–hosted at our house on Saturday night for a group [...]

Jax has a best friend, Jeremy, at his daycare. The two of them are inseparable, so I’ve been told on more than one occasion. Their teachers tell me how they sit together for meals, how they wrestle, how they light up when they first see each other in the mornings. Just last week, they reported [...]

I’m so looking forward to Black Friday, but not for the reasons you probably think: leftovers & shopping. I’m not shopping on Black Friday this year, at least not in the stores. I may do a bit online, but only if I hear about a sale that can’t be passed up. And as for the [...]

I have these days during which I feel the universe is out to get me. Do you have those, too? The worst is when it spans 2 days. I’m at what I hope is the tail end of a 2-day span of universal retribution. For what? Beats me! But it’s clearly getting its revenge on [...]

It’s been a few months since I wrote about our daycare experience, so for those of you wondering how it’s been going, here’s an update! Let me admit that I am of two minds about my son being in daycare. Is it possible to both like and dislike the fact that I’m a working mother, [...]