Last week I was at the park on a play date with some of my Mom friends and - !HOLD ONTO YOUR HATS! - the conversation turned to our kids. Because the conversation never veers away from our kids. On play dates you are only legally allowed to talk about three things - kids, children and babies. Once in a while someone might throw in something about a cleanse. After play dates ...
Note To Self On Having Another Baby
This was a post I wrote a few months after our second daughter was born - AKA The Awful. Around The Awful I was spending the majority of my day fantasizing about running away via hitch hiking cross country in a wig and fake mustache (though I was working on a nice real one that probably would have done just fine) so I could make a new life for myself under a nice quiet ...
I Want To Throw Myself Into Traffic: An Essay On Being A Stay-At-Home Mom
The following is a talk I gave to a group of Moms a few months ago. I was going to save it in the event I was ever invited to do another talk, but as my wonderful (and supportive) husband pointed out, "That's not gonna happen for a long, long time. It was good - you should publish it." Again, the king of the backhanded compliments never disappoints. Enjoy. Making ...
Happy Holidays From The Mayers
Dear Friends, Family and Random Blog Reader Strangers I pray every night aren't pedophiles going to steal my kids, Happy holidays! I thought I'd take a quick moment to share our many blessings and let everyone know what the Mayer family has been up to this year. 2012 kicked off my with OB prescribing me a healthy dose of Zoloft to deal with a bitch of a post partum ...
To Hadley on her first birthday
When I first found out that I was pregnant with you I knew for a fact that out of all the families in the world you had chosen us. After I took six pregnancy tests and picked my jaw up off the floor and had a panic attack and ripped the calendar off the wall and stared at it for two hours wondering when in the hell this happened, I knew out of all the families in the world ...