George won’t sleep. I’m sorry, but those are three of the most horrifying words that any parent can utter about their child, especially once that child is well past infancy. George won’t sleep. Here’s what I really don’t understand, though. If someone were to look at me everyday, and tell me, you know what, it’s [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 26, 2009
What Ted Kennedy’s passing means to me
I’m struck by how very sad I am at the passing of Ted Kennedy. Surely we all saw this coming. Brain cancer at the age of 77 is not exactly something that you bounce back from. It’s cancer. In your brain. It’s just not a smiley prognosis. Yet I am overwhelmingly sad watching the wall [...]
August 26, 2009
How far have we come?
Yesterday, I was walking home with my sons after school. It was a typical day, sun shining, warm but not hot, suburbia splattered all over the sidewalk. Frankly, I think, we’re living the dream. Walking about 50 feet in front of me was a young boy and his mother. The boy was carrying a bag [...]
August 25, 2009
What’s the deal, health care reform naysayers?
The thing that is making me the absolute most crazy about the health care reform debate is the incessant reading and re-reading of proposed bills at various town hall meetings, on fabulous news shows, in countless blogs and uttered from the lips of the average Joe at the office, in the bar or even just hanging [...]
August 24, 2009
Hearts and thoughts they fade… fade away
That’s right. I went and saw Pearl Jam. Jim and I went to see Pearl Jam last night at the United Center, and it was LOUD. Seriously. My ears are currently ringing, and I am wondering how long this will last. It’s mostly my left ear. But who needs hearing, right? We were in a [...]
August 23, 2009
A blog like no other
Well, that’s doubtful. But my husband is slightly interested in my new decision to start to blog. I think he might be worried that I will include in this script details of our sexcapades, as if his weekly ritual of taking off his glasses and grunting “wanna do it” would make it to my blog. [...]
August 23, 2009
Toys… an investment
I think if we could separate all the toys in my house into categories, then get an appraiser to look at each category and determine their worth, we’d find that toys are the number one money-eater in this household. We probably, most likely, have invested thousands in toys over the past seven years. If we [...]
August 22, 2009
I hate (every other) Saturday
So yes, my babies have daddies. One each. Hank has a biological father, George has a biological father, and they are not the same man. I am married to George’s father, and Hank calls George’s father, “Dad.” My husband has been “Dad” since Hank was 2, and for a few years, Hank’s biological father was [...]
August 22, 2009
Hello world!
I like the title of the first post. Hello world. I think I’ll keep it. So what’s a girl like me doing at 9:30 on a Friday night? Sitting on the couch, of course, watching Frost/Nixon, wondering why my 3 year old won’t just go to bed/sit on the toilet/sit on the toilet and pee [...]
