Five for Ten

Words from the vault

• My cultured (?) children

  What is it like to LIVE with three kids? It's messy. And it's loud. But I have to remind myself that those two things are not always bad. In my house, often the messes are art projects. The remnants of art projects. The precursors to art projects. Just about anything goes when it comes to creati

• Confusion

  Dan left for the city. I'm home again with the three boys. Another day and night and day of meals and snacks and naps - and questions, needs and threats. It seems there are so many of these days, where I am fighting the battle of parenthood alone and just trying to keep it all together. Telling m

• What I Learned on My Weekend Away

  I still love J lots and lots. He still loves me. We still like to take long walks and people watch. I can still do a pretty decent job on the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle. Great friends and great food make for a great time and great memories. I miss my kids when we aren't together

• It was probably easier this way, and much more funny

  Let's pick up where we left off, shall we? I went back to work much too early after Ethan was born. I don't know if it was guilt over my absence, or an honest need to get out of the house, but I found myself once again cooped up in an office with a baby carrier tucked away at my feet. In the eigh

• The (tired) backstory

  Is there a mother out there who isn't tired? It's my day to post here (while Sarah watches Heroes), and I was all set to get into it. But I'm so TIRED I can barely breathe without effort. I was just snippy with my Sweetie, for no particular reason other than the fact that I'm SO TIRED. The baby fina

• I used to date women

  Yup. I used to date women. It started in high school. Wait. Strike that. It started in high school. It started in fourth grade. Ashley Parker. We used to bend down and kiss each other on the lips behind the hedgerow before I hurried off to my mother's car at the end of the driveway. Wait. Revelat

• Jury Duty

  So I had jury duty today. No comment.I'm home now and just got off the treadmill. Trying to reacclimate my body to lunges and crunches and the whomp whomp foot pattern of the treadmill is like another full-time job. I feel invigorated by my run and grateful for the new TV in the basement which allow

• Bad weekend brings career change

  The rain stopped. The humidity dropped. We had gorgeous weather all weekend. Even the gray parts of Sunday were a welcome retreat from lightning bolts and sticky feet. But even if the Earth and Sun cooperated, it just wasn't an A+ parenting weekend. I called my kid a little shit. To his face, people

• Haves and Have Nots

  I have three sleeping children. I have not read the local newspaper, which we have delivered daily, in at least two weeks. I have a knot in my upper back/neck region that is making it painful to type. I have not cleaned the bathrooms in a week. (They could easily benefit from a sponge daily

• And the winners are...

  Thanksgiving was perfecto! However, it did kinda sorta skew my focus for a few days. It's taken me longer than I expected to get to this post. It seems I was more concerned about eating pie and keeping toddlers out of trouble than I was about the blog. Phew! That was hard to admit. Especially after