This Mom thing

July 7, 2009: The Mommy Crit Group
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I finally bought myself a copy of Bird By Bird the other day, because I didn't have enough time to read my library copy before it was due. I was only halfway through and I knew it was the kind...

July 6, 2009: This makes me want to sing, "I just want more than this provincial life!" even though provincial is not quite the right word
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I am sitting here in my in-laws' rarely used formal dining room wondering how to say what it is I think I want to say, while my mother-in-law gets dinner ready and Jack runs circles around her and Ye Ye...

July 1, 2009: Good thing I'm going to the spa this weekend
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In high school I went to bed at nine o'clock every night. I would crash in bed with a book and get through maybe a paragraph before I was out. I was so tired. I went to school, then I...

June 23, 2009: Purpose
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I'm up early with the baby, checking my email.. Jack will probably wake up in a half hour and then Phillip will start getting ready for work. And then he'll go to work and I'll start breakfast and I won't...

May 9, 2009: What's a blog for, if not for being self-absorbed on a Saturday night?
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I am thinking about applying for a job. I KNOW. (Today was lovely, by the way. Perfect tiny birthday party, which frees me from doing anything on his ACTUAL birthday, which is on Mother's Day (which, you'll agree, is Not...

May 3, 2009: So here's the unedited, poorly organized deal
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I'm not sure if we've ever seen this precise scene, but I'm betting that when Don Draper gets home from work, Betty Draper does not immediately launch herself into a soliloquy that begins with, "I've had the HARDEST day, you...

March 18, 2009: While I'm being honest
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Child Number One is still in his crib. Child Number Two just went down for her first nap. At seven. GAH. The Internet Fasting thing has turned into more of a Don't Write When The Babies Are Hanging Out With...

March 16, 2009: In which I sound kind of snippy but I'm not, promise
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I would have liked to call DO OVER on today, but the universe doesn't see fit to give me do over authority. It started out with a poo-in-the-tub incident moving on to an hour of Dual Force Whining then laundry,...

December 3, 2008: Forget the Awesome Wife Trophy
Comments: 9 | Categories: Family , Phillip , This Mom thing
Phillip and I had a long annoying fight last night. And the reason it was long and annoying was because I was waltzing around what I really wanted to say, which was: "For the love of God, if I can...

October 22, 2008: Too much to ask
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Sometimes you can have a frustrating day without anything legitimately frustrating happen. I usually try to get whatever lame thing I'm writing for Parenting out of the way on Tuesday night. I send it in Wednesday morning and they post...

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