Babies mean Power

I’ve always been a D-list relative. I don’t take it personally, its just the way of things. We’re always coming and going from one continent to the next, so our movements (and ourselves) have become less interesting to others over time. Relatives got used to us being away, so much so that even when we [...]

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Gordon Ramsey, How Could You?

Oh, I am devastated. Gordon, Gordon, Gordon.
Where do I even start?
I feel betrayed, I do. I couldn’t live without Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares (and House and Grey’s Anatomy, but who’s counting?). I’ve been singing your praises for months to anyone who’ll listen. I became a fan on facebook, and I never become a fan [...]

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The Sublime Joy of Doing Nothing

“I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything – which as you know, always leads to something – cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.“
-Jerry Seinfeld
Oh boy, I accomplished nothing today, maybe less than nothing, and it was sensational. I really wish we’d tried this [...]

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Using Dirty Diapers as Pillows

This morning I went into the girls room and found poor Mumu using a puffed out pee pee diaper as a pillow. No doubt it was soft and squishy, but standards babygirl! I can’t imagine how this happened. Yea right, I know exactly how it happened. Last night was brutal. I blame the pediatrician.
We went [...]

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973 Pages of Fun

I’m reading this book and it’s kind of messing with my head. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Yea Oprah turned me on to it, I admit it. It’s all kinds of crazy. I love it. Its massively long, 973 pages yo, but so interesting it’s just flying by. I’m on [...]

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Bears!

My little Valentines twinnies are 9 months old today! On this momentous occasion, only one thought comes to mind: Can I trade them in for human babies?
I’m telling you, the sounds coming out of these creatures are not human. They’ve moved past their talking like pirates with emphysema phase (which at least was vaguely human) [...]

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The Baptism Fiasco

I am a bad Catholic. I admit it. I haven’t been to church in bloody ages. The nuns who taught me in Catholic school are shaking their collective heads and rosaries in dismay I’m sure. But even bad Catholics want their children to be baptized, or at least this one does.
The problem is this: [...]

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Oh Happy Day

All is plumeria and sunshine. Jungledad has time off after all the volcano shifts this month and is minding the twins around the clock, leaving me free as a Na Na. I’ve been reading, sketching, and generally luxuriating. Total bliss. What’s more, no more volcano shifts for at least 3 months- wooohoooo! And a month [...]

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Baby Gates Freak Me Out

I know, I know, you don’t have to tell me. Baby gates are very important. The way Lulu gallops across the room desperately flinging herself and her eager little mouth at any power cord she can find re-enforces this point, as do the stairs and the tipsy round table I knocked over and smashed half [...]

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You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Everyone, especially every Mom, has ways of handling stress; some coping mechanism or vice that gets her by. In my younger non-wife non-mommy days, I tended to favor the vices (the fun ones anyway). Now that I’m a Mom, I favor Mick Jagger. Yes, I realize he himself often qualifies as a vice, but not [...]

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