Ok, so I took an unannounced week and a half vacation from my blog. I am sure that none of you even noticed but, I have been feeling pretty guilty about it all week. I have a good excuse for missing last Sunday’s post. It was Oskar’s 3rd birthday last weekend and any parent out there knows how all consuming a child’s birthday party can be. Needless to say, there was no time to blog. I have an even better excuse for missing my Wednesday post. I started a post for WTF on the whole Adam Lambert thing. I was read more…

Ok, Ok, I admit it. I have, on occasion, rocked out to Party In The USA by Miley Cyrus. I know it is wrong. So very, very wrong. My excuse… my 3-year-old son loves it. He even asks for it by name and I can’t refuse his cute face. He especially likes the part about the taxicab. You know the part: Get to the club in my taxicab and everybody’s looking at me now Ooops, I should not have written that. Now you know I have listened to it enough to know the words. So busted. You could call Miley read more…

Ok so, I am really excited and happy and proud of myself today. I went shopping this morning and I tried on and actually fit into a Size 8. Whoot Whoot! You know what that means… it means I have officially lost all my baby weight and I am back to the size I was on my wedding day (I even put my wedding dress on to be sure and it fit). Hell ya!!! I feel soooo good about it. Since the birth of my second baby, seven months ago, I have been working out and eating sensibly and it read more…

I have always been a realist, perhaps too much so. I have rarely allowed myself to indulge in frivolity; much of my adolescent and adult life has been ruled by logic and practicality. I have been the model of steadfastness and sacrifice. I learned it from the best; my mother was a single parent who, at one point in her life was a dreamer, but pushed that aside for the reality of raising two children alone. I learned from her that life requires self sacrifice and compromise, that one can’t always just do as they please. I have always been read more…

This could be a short and/or disjointed blog post. I am a little over extended at the moment. In case you have not heard, I had this crazy idea to try and write a novel in the month of November for National Novel Writing Month. The initial excitement is officially wearing off; I am not dreading the task yet but, I feel the hate coming on. 10773 words so far. I could see the hate really setting in around 15000 words. We’ll see. So, the big question is how am I managing to write this novel so far?? 1) Big read more…