From the monthly archives:

June 2009

Payback

June 29, 2009

The Poo went to a soccer camp two weeks ago—every morning from 9 to 10:30 for a week. The clinic was part of a program that brings coaches over from the UK and travels the nation, putting on these five-day events all over the country.
We started talking in the spring about signing her up for [...]

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My Cheating Heart

June 26, 2009

He reaches out to me, cheeks wet with tears. His chest rises in a tremendous sob, snot running from his little nose.
Mumum, Mumum!
I lean over the high rail of his crib to rescue him from a hot tangle of blankets and lovies. His brown monkey looks up at us as I lift the baby to [...]

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The Label Maker

June 24, 2009

I never identified myself using labels.
That isn’t to say that I can’t be labeled. I am many things: wife, daughter, sister, friend, mother, partner, writer, worker, sister … the list is long. Many of the labels I’ve worn include “not”—not popular, not outgoing.
But when it comes to -isms, I just don’t think about them. Don’t [...]

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This Mommyblogging Moment Brought To You By The Babyman

June 22, 2009

I had a whole big post in mind, one that touches on some of the Big And Serious Issues that are going around in the newest, bloody battle on the front lines of The Mommy Wars.
Then this happened:

So you’ll have to excuse me. I am at once ridiculously proud and ridiculously horrified. This was taken [...]

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Father’s Day

June 21, 2009

“I don’t remember my first Father’s Day,” my husband says. Our children play and shriek at his feet. He looks at me over the head of our oldest, our daughter, with a half-smile on his face.
I look at him for a minute, then I remember. “We went to the cemetery,” I say. “With my mom. [...]

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How Not To Spend A Summer Day

June 20, 2009

She was fine when she woke up, but a few hours later there was a fever of 102 and vomiting in her pretty pink bed. Birthday parties and splashing in the pool will be missed, a summer’s day spent huddled under heavy covers in her bathrobe.
“Mama, Norah will be so frustrated!” she cries. “I have [...]

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Simple Magic

June 19, 2009

We were tired after a long day.
We were all out of the house by 9 a.m., and The Poo had two hours of soccer. The Babyman got to know his third babysitter in as many weeks. We went to the mall, the bookstore and out to dinner.
The Poo was in bed when the doorbell rang, [...]

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Month 10

June 18, 2009

Every month gets better and better, my Babyman. I love your face.

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A Tale Of Three Babysitters

June 16, 2009

At a party recently I bemoaned the fact that my babysitter was leaving us, when I woman I barely know turned to me, a look of recollected horror on her face.
“I went into therapy after my favorite babysitter quit,” she said, eyebrows knitting together in consternation.
I gave her my patented “cocktail party/fellow parent” laugh, and [...]

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The Voyeur In Me (And You)

June 15, 2009

I remember being a young girl, riding in the backseat of my parents’ car, on the way home from my aunt and uncle’s house.
I remember the thruway, a broken ribbon of yellow rushing under the tires. I remember the sound: whump-whump-whump. My sister sleeping on left, my brother on the right, both their heavy [...]

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