James & Jax

Ever feel like every female you know is pregnant? Like it’s some kind of conspiracy to get you to have another kid (or your first, if you haven’t joined the parenting club yet)? That’s my life right now. My husband and I decided long, long ago that we wanted only one child. I won’t list [...]

I spent a few minutes the other day jotting down a list of all the things I remember about 2011: I started out 2011 sick with something called tracheitis. Which shouldn’t have surprised me, having a toddler (aka a germ magnet). In mid-January, I wrote a post that generated over 10,000 page views in one [...]

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 [...]