Tag: one parent

  • Best Advice I’ve Ever Received, Part 1

    This is the first part of a series on the best advice I’ve ever received. Over the next four weeks, I’ll write about statements that have altered my life and inspired me for years. Although it’s impossible to rank their importance, I will attempt to count them down, Casey Kasem style. “And coming in at…

  • All the Memberships

    I’m the kind of mom who buys all the memberships.  Science center, botanical garden, zoo: you name it, I buy a membership to it.  I know a family who buys only one membership per year. They go to that place once a month for 12 months and then buy a different membership for the next year. That…

  • Interdependence Day

    Today is the 4th of July. It is a great day because I woke up healthy. Three years ago, I feared that I might not. I was in the emergency room, listening intently to the young doctor who had just examined my CT scan. “You have five masses in your abdomen,” she stated perfunctorily. “It…

  • Excuse Me: I Have an Announcement to Make

    How old does your child have to be before you remember not to declare loudly, “I’m going to go pee in the potty!” when you are with a group of adults? #askingforafriend

  • Dating for Moms

    Browsing on dating sites, I see so many guys who write that they are looking for spontaneity. These guys clearly do not have kids. The only spontaneity that happens after parenthood takes the form of either a temper tantrum or a stomach virus. Sometimes both. Just the word “spontaneous” is enough to strike fear into…

  • What’s in your boots?

    This morning as my son was putting his rain boots on, he stopped abruptly. “There’s something in my boot.” I picked up the boot and turned it over, expecting to find a rock. Instead, four cherry tomatoes rolled onto the floor. I picked one off of the ground and saw that it was moldy. “Did…

  • How to become your child’s hero

    What have I done to become a hero to my son? It’s nothing I ever imagined. I thought he hear me in a concert and think how cool it was to have a musician-mom. Or he would see me running a marathon and say, “That’s my mom!” But be has watched those things for his…

  • Riding the Meal Train

    I love this new trend to start a “meal trains” where you drop food off for friends with newborns. And I know that the friends who receive them are very appreciative. But still I never sign up to bring anything. It’s meant to be simple enough for anyone to do. You are just supposed to…

  • Wa Condo Forever

    Scott Discussing Vacation: “I can’t wait to stay in a condo… That’s where Black Panther lives!” [Who am I to argue? Maybe he will turn out to be right…]

  • The Big Question…

    “Mom, why is it just you in my family?” my son asked. We were standing in our kitchen and he was asking the question I’ve both dreaded and prepared for since before he was born: “Why don’t I have a……” My brain reeled. I always thought that I would have formulated a better answer before…