I adore being a mother. It’s the job I always wanted and one that I feel I’m really good at. Am I the perfect mother? Of course not. I don’t even come close. But I’ve always felt that motherhood fit my personality and talents well. That is, I used to feel that way. This September our eldest child, Tom, started high school and then a few months later turned … [Read more...]
Baby Come Back
Last Wednesday I put my first baby on the big yellow bus and sent him off to school.Well, I really didn’t put him on the bus, he walked to the bus stop by himself.And, the school I sent him off to wasn’t kindergarten, or even middle school. It was high school. The baby I once cradled in my arms is now 14 and taller than I am. I’ll admit it, I walked him to our corner. Not … [Read more...]
Babies Change Everything
Whenever a new baby comes into the picture it really turns a household upside down.This happened when each of our three children were born and has happened once again as my new "baby," Bonbon Break was born, or rather, launched, on July 16. Life has been crazy. The dishwasher and I are surviving, but since I have new arrivals on my mind I thought it would be fun to re-visit a … [Read more...]
From the Beginning
I still remember the bus ride to work the day I found out I was pregnant with our first child, Tom. We'd just moved from Manhattan to Queens, so I was now taking a commuter bus into my job as an assistant in a venture capital firm. I spent the whole 45-minute trip obsessing on the fact that we didn't have life insurance on my husband.For the life of me, I couldn't understand … [Read more...]
