When they said it gets easier, what they meant is – it doesn't.

It’s nearly two months since I posted about the horribly hard transition to parenthood.  With each passing day and week, people have kept telling me it gets easier.  At 8 weeks, at 12 weeks, at 4 months, at 6 months.  This article said four months and twenty...

Friday Funnies: Mommy Style

I’ve started collecting  motherhood/parenthood funnies.  Here’s a few of my recent favorites. Thanks to my sister-in-law for sending this video.  “Mom, mom she’s the bomb, rockin’ all night till the break of dawn.” One of many...

Five Hours: His vs. Hers

Negotiating free-time between new parents is a delicate matter. Everyone needs a break. Yet, the sleep deprived mind doesn’t like for others to bask in the glow of free-time without knowing when theirs is coming. For some figuring out free-time is easy, for me,...

Baby got a Library Card

Baby got a library card* today.  She’s three months old and needed her own card to register for Mother Goose sessions… (Cue the beginnings of psycho-mom-who-stands-in-lines-to-overschedule-her-kid.) …and there were only two spots left…among all...

Sh*tty Mom: The Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us

Sh*tty Mom was a complete impulse buy last week.  I was wandering through the bookstore, passing by Humor on my way to Parenting.  I didn’t even know it was a new book.  Maybe it’s just because the topic is so relevant to my station in life, but I...