Aside from my children, the most precious thing in my life is time. I never have enough of it, and no matter how hard I try and how creative I get, there are only 24 hours in a day. That is probably my most frustrating discovery of the last six years. I’m a night owl, […]
How New Dads Can Help Breastfeeding Moms
We usually think of breastfeeding as falling solely on our shoulders—and a lot of it does, of course. We’re the ones who are up at all hours of the night with a hungry baby. It’s our nipples that are sore and possibly cracked and bleeding. It’s our painfully engorged breasts that leak milk […]
When Do New Moms Get Their Groove Back?
About eight weeks after I had my son, I emerged from my new-mom cocoon…and I needed a haircut. Desperately. So I pried myself away from my little boy and headed downtown. Afterward, I looked like I had just stepped out of a salon, because, well, I had. But the real thing […]
6 Things Kids Change (That I'm Surprisingly OK With)
It was Fleet Week in New York City last week, and if you don’t remember from a long-ago episode of Sex and the City, it is arguably the most wonderful time of the year in my hometown. Why? The sailors are here! Handsome, brave men (and women) who are letting loose and […]
Hey, Girl: It’s OK to Wear Sweatpants
Lesson of the week: Do not get between a mom and her sweatpants. Eva Mendes learned this the hard way after making the following comment: “You can’t do sweatpants. No, ladies! Number one cause of divorce in America: Sweatpants. Of course, after the fact, she said she was joking, and her hottie—er, I mean, her […]
9 Things That Make Me Happy
I don’t need to tell you this, but sometimes life is just exhausting. And difficult. And seemingly unwinnable. And, if you have a small child, snotty. As in, there just might be actual snot everywhere. Some weeks, it threatens to overwhelm you and make you want to hide under the covers until someone brings […]