I am now in week three of leaving my job to stay home with G. In that time, we have: all gone on a long weekend trip to Manhattan, survived my husband’s 3-day and then 2-day business trips, rushed through the Hopper/Homer exhibit at the Art Institute (barely), attended “National Train Day” at Union Station [...]

 
 
As I pulled out the bottle of wine from my diaper bag while standing in line at the post office, I thought, “Boy, this does not look good.” But what’s a girl to do when she is on her way to a late-afternoon playdate/dinner and she owes out-of-state college friends VERY overdue baby gifts (as [...]

 
It took us so long to convert his $650 Pottery Barn crib to a “toddler daybed” (fancy term for taking one of the sides off). And now I know why after reading the one and only instruction that came with the $60 “conversion kit” (sucker purchase for first-time parents who don’t understand that you just [...]

 
It used to be a
quick salad from Cosi
 
Or if there was time
 
A bento box from across the street with perhaps a
glass of wine hastily sipped before anyone noticed
The ultimate goal to obtain the
perfect combination of wasabi and ginger slices
The only decision being
whether or not to eat your tempura
first or last
 
Now the perfection [...]

 
“I’ll do it later.”
 
Is always his 3 year-old response.
 
Later like later today? Later like later next week? Or later, like when he is 6 years-old and he’ll be laughed-at-by-his-peers later, I wonder?
 
Most of all, I wonder why the kid just can’t pull down his pants and use the toilet.
 
We have now entered the [...]

 
 
It all started on my 35th birthday.
 
I am a medical writer who works part-time from home. Totally great gig. No business casual for me. No hurried run to and from the subway to pick up my 3-year old from daycare. The people I work with are pleasant and I have been doing this for [...]