When Ruby gives a kiss, she includes her deadly, dark-eyed, mojo stare.When Ruby gets angry, she thrashes dramatically and makes sure her voice is heard in the last row.When Ruby gets inquisitive, she pays concentrated attention to all the answers.When Ruby gets sick, she hallucinates. After being blithely dismissed by the doctor yesterday (not our [...]
So, the Ruby Sleep Saga continues it’s relentless rampage over my life. We’ve had not a few horrendous nights during the past two weeks and to be totally honest, it’s somewhat surprising that I haven’t been pulled from my child’s throat by officers clad in the standard blue uniforms worn by protectors of America’s Finest [...]
I’d intended to sit down tonight to write about the holidays. Perhaps I’d write something meaningful about how it felt to spend this Christmas season at home, the first time in seven years that we didn’t swap tradition for adventures in far-away-lands. Maybe I’d try to write about how profound it was to watch a [...]
Here’s some free birth control for anyone on the fence (Adapted from a previous blog post.) I remember once, before I was a mom, well before I even thought I wanted to be a mom—which was only about three hours before I became a mom—being lectured by neighbors at my local dog park about how [...]
The Steroid Report is what makes the top news story today?JesusMarrryandJooooseph (to be said with an Irish accent). I’m ashamed I’m even linking to it.What about the covered-up rape of a young woman, by Haliburton employees? Does this concern our I-have-health-care-for-the-rest-of-my-life congressional representatives at all? Anyone clocking in at the Justice Department today? No? This [...]
Over the two-year (!) lifespan of this blog, I have written rather extensively and quite honestly about the downfalls of parenting. More specifically, the sleep habits of one particular little girl in this house and how those sleep habits affect the big girl in this house and how that, in turn, affects the marriage of [...]
It’s been pouring rain today, all day, a rare and welcome occurrence in this corner of the globe. Ruby fell asleep in the car on the way home from our morning adventure which culminated in a visit to her father’s shop. While there, she drank two espresso-sized cups of hot chocolate and two Fuh NEWtins, [...]
Ruby has been somewhat cold toward me since I spent two of the past three weekends away. The first was a business trip that took me to the desert. The second was…well, I’ve already gone on and on about the place I won’t mention again, but in case you’re new here, it sounds like man [...]
I’ve been wanting to write about Ruby’s language development and quote some of our more enlightening conversations. But as her vocabulary surpasses her brain-to-tongue synapses, it’s become exceedingly difficult to convey the nuance of her lisp or her many dropped syllables without offering parenthetic interpretation. Fortunately, she gave a lovely little performance for me tonight [...]
I walked in from the gym tonight to find Sam sitting with Ruby at the dining room table. She was shoveling hummus into her mouth with corn chips, alternately chasing it with broccoli, soy milk and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. It was a meal straight from the food pyramid. Toward the end of [...]