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...]
Bedtime Stories
The other morning my husband and I were just waking up in our bed, cozy and warm. "Do you realize that this Valentine's Day it will be 20 years since we got engaged?" I smiled as Joe said this. Then I felt a hand reach out to me. It would have been romantic if the hand was Joe's. But the hand in my face belonged to our sound-asleep six-year-old, Peter. I don't remember him … [Read more...]
My Four-Legged Mentor
When my husband and I first thought about starting a family, we decided we would start with a cat. We assumed that if we didn't kill the cat, we could probably handle a baby.Joe and I went predictably crazy over our new addition. Because we lived in Manhattan, we decided to adopt a cat from the ASPCA. Samantha was a cute little thing that was found wandering the streets of New … [Read more...]
No Place Like Home
For a few days this week, I visited a place I haven't been in years... NoKidLand. For four nights I slept in a bed with my husband with no children trying to sneak in between us. We even had a chance to share a kiss without anyone claiming we had emotionally scarred them for life. No one woke me at 4:30 with a box of cereal or requests for toast, with butter. At no time … [Read more...]
