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Category Archives: Mom Stuff
One Step Forward, Two Sh!ts Back
Potty Training is not for the weak.
Milkin’ It
Austin is pretty hip and in this city, there are a lot of places worth waiting to get into. People line up at dawn at Franklin Barbecue just a chance at some brisket 6 hours later. To get the half-off pork chop at Perry’s Steakhouse on a Friday lunch, you should probably make a reservationContinue reading “Milkin’ It”
How Far Along Are You?
I’m in the home stretch. I am so close yet so. far. from having this baby. I feel like qualifying it by weeks or even number of days doesn’t do it justice because it just doesn’t describe the level of pregnant that I am. So, here are some other ways to count how far along IContinue reading “How Far Along Are You?”
Re-Birth
The clock is winding down. With any luck, I will have given birth by this time next month. I am just now getting used to my life being entirely different from Little Man’s arrival, and now things are about to change all over again. But more on that later… It’s funny how pregnancy is soContinue reading “Re-Birth”
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Cry
I have a difficult son. When he was an infant, people would always ask me if he was a good baby and I never knew how to answer that. He cried a lot, was difficult to nurse, rarely slept at night, and never let me sit down and hold him at the same time. IContinue reading “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly Cry”
Dear Mr. Manager
It happened, you guys. I’m a woman in my thirties. I can’t even say that I am just thirty. I am actually IN my thirties. It seems like only yesterday that I was the one bragging to my coworkers that “I wasn’t even BORN when that happened!” In my early twenties, I dated a guyContinue reading “Dear Mr. Manager”
Bump Wars
When I was pregnant with my Little Man, I soon met two kinds of women: those who did not have kids and had a million questions and those who did have kids and had a million suggestions. The first group of women were fun at first. They would look at me with such awe and wonderContinue reading “Bump Wars”