A Facebook friend of mine recently posted The Atlantic article “Why Women Still Can’t Have it All” on her business Facebook page, asking what her followers thought. I have been interested in reading women’s responses to this article, which primarily argues that despite great advances in women’s rights, the balance… Continue reading »
I’m going to ignore the fact that I’ve been away and go right into the blog part. A friend of mine shared this article yesterday How to Talk to Little Girls. If this were part of an article in a parenting magazine, it would fall under the heading “Common Mistakes… Continue reading »
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Alright. I owe you an apology. A big apology. The fact that I haven’t been blogging has been plaguing me for the past month and a half and I just have been too embarrassed to show my slacker face back here at the MotherBlog… which, of course, only made things… Continue reading »
Okay… so that’s not how it goes… I realize things have been pretty quiet here at the MotherBlog. I worried this would happen. While our family balances work and family time like most families, there’s an additional complication in the mix: theatre. These days I am knee-deep in Richmond Shakespeare‘s… Continue reading »
I’m sorry I’ve been out for a week due to rehearsals revving up for King Lear. I got online to write an unrelated piece and found out I made it on Apartment Therapy Re-Nest! I’m super stoked (and feel like an idiot for not making it back to the blog… Continue reading »
“I just need a lot of your attention” Max told me when snapped at him after he interrupted me for the 4th time while I was trying to hold a conversation with a friend. Max likes to play, but it’s only interesting to him if I am watching him narrate… Continue reading »
I get that compliment a lot. Which is terribly sweet. Except I have two boys. Lets look and see why people might be saying that: Okay… so they have pretty hair. But I love it. Besides, it looks super cool with a leather jacket: But Max, over hearing he made… Continue reading »
Max explained the rules of being a pirate, I wrote them down verbatim. At a certain point he realized that I was writing it down… it quickly became a bit of a performance. Imagine the rest as one big quote: Okay, Rule 1: A Pirate should always hold swords and… Continue reading »
As we were wrapping up Max’s bath tonight and putting away bath toys I picked an irritatingly slow draining boat out of the water and as a joke, let it drain slowly onto his head. Max sat completely still as I emptied the boat and the last few drips rolled… Continue reading »