Category: The Baby

To This Sick Beat

Earlier this week, and I’m not even sure how it happened, the girls and I re-created the Matchmaker scene from Fiddler On The Roof. You know the one. I mean, we’re talking complete with towels that we used to become Yenta. It was hilarious and ridiculous, and basically the most…

A New Normal

Isabella came home all smiles yesterday. She had auditioned for her school play — High School Musical — with a roar-y Katy Perry song and it had gone better than she’d hoped. “Mama, they were all hopping along with my singing. I was the only one who got HOPS from…

That Time I Got Wet For Her: What She’ll Remember

Sometimes when I’m feeling exasperated with my kids and I’m having a Betty Draper Francis kind of day, I worry that this is what they’ll remember. “Mama is a holiday ruiner!” they’ll remember. Because this is true. I always seem to forget that my mostly good kids are, in fact,…