The Mommy Rant

What's worse than playing checkers with a four-year old? Playing chess with a four-year old. In a way it's good that we've moved...

I know what you're thinking, "good grief, how long does it take her to read one book?" Answer: a long time. I just finished th...

I don't know what I'll do when preschool starts and I'm left without a translator for H three mornings a week. C now tells me wh...

I'm thinking that I should start putting notches on the bathroom wall, like prisoners do, to keep a record of how many times I get up at...

No doubt everyone reacts to a new pregnancy differently and in a hundred odd, idiosyncratic ways. One of the things I began doing immediatel...

This morning C examined what we had on hand for breakfast cereals (Cheerios and Honey Nut Cheerios), and announced we didn't have very m...

It's strange the things you crave when pregnant. Ironically it's not the fresh lettuce you've been growing by the bucketful in t...

So, one day in late June you find yourself pregnant. And you're not entirely surprised, after all, you're old enough to know how bab...

Hey Liz! You know what having twins at 39 is? It's inane! That is so ironic. song: Ironic • artist: Alanis Morissette

When Elvis died, all the girls cried.

So I was planning to tell you today that we're having a baby in February. But after having an ultrasound today, it looks as if we're...

Rounding out our trip to Maine was a stop on the way home at the Brunswick Diner. What a great diner! They served breakfast all day (which w...

Here's to the King, he sure could sing.

Ken is working the next four Saturdays in a row. Saturdays are the worst because the kids don't have any of their usual activities going...

We've got Plimoth Plantation and New Harbor Maine has Colonial Pemaquid. Never heard of Colonial Pemaquid? I'm not surprised. As far...

I wish I could write like E.B. White.

i hear the waves outside our door, crashing against the rocky shore

Chamberlain Maine is one of those tiny summer vacation communities where everyone knows everyone and all the houses go back two or three gen...

Weather like we've had the past two weeks makes me miss the air-conditioned comfort of full time office work. I know I shouldn't com...

C met a new friend at Coonamesset Farm on Monday. She was quite taken with C and followed us to pick raspberries, she and C yucking it up al...