If you are so inclined, pop on over to my craft blog, Specraftular , and take a peek at the making of Super Why and Baby Caesar . Cuteness a...

This is baby Moses. Christopher made him in Sunday School this past Sunday. He came home in a little basket made from a paper plate cut in ...

It's November - that month when bloggers take a solemn vow to post everyday thereby leaving no one to actually read posts so I'm thi...

I'm still here. I didn't go to Canada or any other vast wilderness. I did go to Chapel Hill and visit the Woman's Birth and Well...

It's that feeling in my throat - around my throat, rather - that something is choking me. I open my mouth to speak and the words never m...

It's October. Mid-October at that. 2010 is just about over and there are so many things I didn't finish this year. For my own sake, ...

Today, while Colin napped, Christopher and I got out a roll of paper and some crayons. He lay down on his back and let me trace him. I used ...

I'm not going to get into the #pinkwashing of October or the ineffectiveness of silly games for social activism . Instead, I'm putt...

I don't write about Mallory much anymore because she's 14 and her own person. However, she has granted me permission to tell this on...

What defined me before I became a mother? Was it my job as executive director of a non-profit organization? Was it my private piano studio? ...

Have you seen Away We Go? The movie where Maggie Gyllenhaal plays the crazy attached mama? If you are like me, and hate to watch video w...

Tomorrow morning I'm headed to the TypeAMom conference in Asheville. The reason I started blogging was to have an anonymous place to ...

To My Dwindling Posterior: While I appreciate your willingness to return to pre-baby size and shape, I would like to remind you that you we...

I talk about boobs a lot. I realize this. Even before I was so passionate about breastfeeding, I talked about boobs. I've gone on and on...

Dear Colin, Yesterday I could feel the rough top edge of one of your bottom teeth where it had finally broken through your gum. Teething is ...

Okay, so I'm not really going to teach you how to move a grand piano yourselves. Because you shouldn't. Just don't even try. Cal...

It's been a busy week. Colin has had a cold, which for him, means large amounts of projectile vomiting whenever he wakes up. Fun fountai...

Dear Person Who Randomly Unfriended Me, I blocked you. Because I always thought you were weird anyway, and now that I don't have to pret...

A few months ago, I switched the boys to cloth diapers . I got a lot of advice from friends, and something that Kara said stuck in my head....

Usually I fall on the side of treating Twitter like an online cocktail party. I breeze in and breeze out at my leisure, joining in conversat...