Rebel
Yes I am raising a little rebel. For her birthday this year Rebekah wanted to get the top of her ear pierced so yesterday we made it happen. I know my mom would never have let me do that (sorry Mom!). So why did we let Rebekah? She is heading into what for me was some challenging years growing ...

Acupuncture Barbie
If it weren't for the SMC-wannabe writing about her unfortunate incident I would never have associated acupuncture with pig placenta. I would probably have gone to my appointment all excited and not even a little nervous. Or scared. Or worried that at any moment I'd be presented with post-nata ...


The Office – “Cafe Disco”
“Cafe Disco”May 7th 2009About halfway through “Cafe Disco” I admittedly wasn’t amused: here we are a week out from the half-hour finale (which is a move away from the one-hour finales we have been getting for the past few seasons) and the show is spending its time on the most throwawa ...

The pleasure and the pain
The girls had birthdays over the last week Little Mermaid (now 4) last Friday and Cinderella yesterday (now 6).  We’re very clever to get them close together like that I know.  So far I’ve been able to get away with one birthday party between them with a cake for dessert on the day of eac ...