This morning a vehicular surprise arrived in our Cherrios box.But here's the thing. It arrived partially disassembled. The car was all black with no stickers on it and there was a separate sticker package like this in the box:I had to hide the car from Ari so that he didn't go insane (he loves cars!). [...]
Apparently, I underestimated my toddler's technology smarts. He was able to successfully change the desktop background on my computer. When I caught him, he had climbed up onto the computer chair, and was furiously clicking the mouse. He managed, in this process, to change the desktop background to this picture:Amazing! All I could do was [...]
I was on the subway watching some very talented break dancers do their thing. One of them was doing flips and such. Then I noticed that the one flipping all over the place was touching the disgusting subway floor with his gloved hands. And I began to fear for his life. I thought about all [...]
I received a voicemail from a doctor at the ER. On the voicemail she said:"Hi, this is Dr. BEEP from the ER, we found something on your x-ray. Can you please give us a call back?"At the word "something" I was ready to hang up the phone immediately and call her back. But I forced [...]
This morning, I feel okay about Wil's night shift. The reason I feel alright about it is because of something called "The Couple's Journal." I recently wrote a post complaining about my boyfriend (Wilhem's) night shift. Click here to read it.Essentially the gist of the post, if you are too lazy to read it, is [...]
I'm not sure what just happened, but my immediate reaction is that I am sad, feel rejected and unnecessary in my son's life. Okay that is a bit of an exaggeration but here's what went down:These days, Ari (my son) has been sleeping in "my" bed with me. I've been feeling under the weather for [...]
Last night I went to one of my least favorite places in the universe: The Emergency Room. I came home from work, realized that I was in excruciating pain in my right knee and headed straight for the couch.My son was running around destroying things but alas, I was too tired to stop him.The phone [...]
Somebody once told me that kids who drink chocolate milk are less likely to want soda. I'm not so sure about this theory anymore.Last night we ordered Mexican food. Wilhelm and I had enchiladas and my son had a quesadilla which he ate none of so we ended up giving him spaghetti instead.In general, I [...]
