Scott and I moved in to this place as boyfriend and girlfriend six years ago. We hardly imagined we’d have our first kid here…not to mention three dogs…because EF THAT. (Yes, the puppy is still shacking up here.) Anyway, this place was built in 1965 and it oozes California Modern (circa 1965) from it’s every recessed fixture and wood paneled… Read more →
Month: March 2012
Cough Cough Wheez
No…I’m not smoking virtual pot (although sometimes it seems that way on Twitter). I’m stupid sick. And I’m SO CRANKY about it. And have extra work to do, and my back hurts, and preschool costs so much money, and DO YOU THINK I’M GOING TO WIN THE LOTTERY TOMORROW? This picture makes me smile though (sorry for the double do… Read more →
Bedtime is for Suckers
Last night, it was Scott’s turn to put Dee to bed (which lately consists of fielding her desperate shrieks for a few minutes before she either conks out or we cave to her pleas to sleep in Mommydaddy’s room — how did bedtime go so wrong?!). But this time, he emerged without so much as a peep from Sweet Dee. … Read more →
Laissez Fare: Quinoa Hot Cereal in Your Rice Cooker
I’ve always had a habit of finding a food I like and then eating it obsessively until I can no longer stand the sight of it (hello, everything on the menu at DOJO my freshman year of college). That’s kind of what happened with me and quinoa. Until today, when I accidentally discovered that I could make Quinoa Hot Cereal… Read more →
Hump Day Humpty Dance
I made a new blog header and it has the same picture that I just posted this morning, and well…my mania dictates that I have to bump that post down, you know? So, what’s up you guys? How’s your day going? I’m doing pretty well. Have you heard my friend Eric’s band Tanlines yet? You should listen. Their new album came out yesterday and they’re… Read more →
Pillow Talk
At 1 am Dee crawled into my bed and curled up next to me. She put her little face as close to mine as possible and whispered… Dee: “Hey Mommy…I want to tell you something.” Me: “Yeah baby?” D: “The Doggies go poo poo on the grass.” Me: “Yeah, baby…they do.” D: “They go poo poo in the house, too.”… Read more →
And now this.
Yesterday I gushed about how happy I was to have enrolled Delilah in our local temple preschool. This morning in the south of France, a young Jewish mother — not unlike me — got a call that her 30-year-old husband and their 3 and 6-year-old sons — along with another mother’s child — had been shot dead outside of their… Read more →
I Made a Freaking Challah, and Other Thoughts About My Jewishness.
A few weeks ago Delilah started “Transition” class. That is, for the uninitiated, pre-pre-school, so to speak. Almost immediately, I realized I had found what I didn’t know had been missing from our lives. Jews. No really. As you may have deduced from my frequent swapping of Moses for any other prophet, saint, or deity in common turns of phrase,… Read more →
Tie-Dye is Perfect for Distracting from Stretchmarks
Vancouver-based Daub + Design does things with tie-dye that not even the most brain fried hippie could have dreamed of. In the best way.I mean, right? Maybe after my imaginary future tummy tuck I can wear a bikini like this one. {I’ll take the seamless undies and would probably trade asses with this chick too.} GAH! I want it all!… Read more →
Well, Shit.
Yesterday, a squirrel ran out into the street and under Scott’s car. Except it wasn’t a squirrel. It weighs about a pound, but we’re pretty sure it’s a dog of some kind. It’s just…let me remind you that I currently share my home with a sixty lb puppy, so you’ll excuse my confusion when upon realizing that this little girl… Read more →