backwards and in high heels.

Uh…that was awkward

Ruby had already buckled herself into her car seat when she realized she’d forgotten the drawings for her teacher. I ignored the urge to say, too bad, kid. We’re late. Chalk it up to a lesson learned about having your shit together. (God, how I love my fantasy life.) Instead I channeled June Cleaver, set [...]

In Family, Life, Love, Marriage, Parenting, Photography, Photos on 26 January 2010 with 12 comments

After searching for her hairbrush for 15 minutes

The Gaydi Project:  Oh! Here it is! It was in front of my face the whole time! Duh.
Sam: Why didn’t she just look there first?

In Bits & Pieces, Family, The Gaydi Project on 31 December 2009 with 5 comments

She is sixteen going on seventeen

I woke Ruby this morning, got her dressed and then told her that I needed to rinse her hair in the sink so that I could poof it out a bit. Revitalize it. She started to cry a really slow, dramatic cry and continued until we had her head turned upside down under the faucet. [...]

In Family, Hair, Love, Parenting, Photography, Photos on 10 August 2009 with 7 comments

She needs me, she needs me not…

This picture was taken by my friend Jamie using her Nikon D300 while she was here on vacation with her family. All I can say is it would have been way cuter if she’d used a canon 40D. But whatever. You have to work with what you got, right? This will have to suffice.
We’re off [...]

In Family, Parenting, Photography, Travel on 28 July 2009 with 7 comments

Harsh reality

“Old MacDonald had a Mommy, eeee-ay, eeee-ay, oh.
With a talktalk here and a talktalk there.
Here a talk, there a talk, everywhere a talktalk.
Old MacDonald had a Mommy, eeee-ay, eeee-ay, taaaaaaaallllllk!”

In Bits & Pieces, Family, Love, Out of the mouths of babes, Parenting, Smidgen on 9 July 2009 with 5 comments

Four years ago today, I met my beautiful daughter

And this morning we had a very frank conversation…
Ruby:  Mama, you need to brush your teeth.
Me:  I already did that, honey. It was the first thing I did when I got up, before I got dressed.
Ruby:  You need to brush your teeth again because your teeth are really dirty.
Me:  My teeth are not dirty! My [...]

In Adoption, Bits & Pieces, Family, Love, Parenting, Photography on 1 July 2009 with 7 comments

Four

It’s a very happy birthday!

In Bits & Pieces, Family, Life, Love, Parenting on 23 June 2009 with 11 comments

The fresh bikini wax pays in spades

While we were getting ready to take a bath this morning:
“Mama?”
“Yes, honey.”
“I love you.”
“Well, I love you more.”
“And I like your vagina hair. It doesn’t touch my butt anymore. ”
“…”

In Family, Out of the mouths of babes, Parenting on 30 May 2009 with 2 comments

Golden girls: Three weeks, two friends, one dog and a compact car

The first postcard arrived within days of my suggesting that The Gaydi Project document her road trip. I bought a map of the United States to hang on my daughter’s bedroom wall and planned to line my mother’s route with the postcards as they arrived. I thought it would be fun for my kid to [...]

In Backwards and In High Heels, Family, The Column, The Gaydi Project, Writing on 26 May 2009 with 4 comments

La famille

Le pere

et la mere

et la fille.

C’est une artiste.

It just sounds so much better in french…as if it isn’t magnificent enough already.

In Bits & Pieces, Family, Love, Photography, Photos on 11 May 2009 with 2 comments