by Amy | Jun 6, 2013 | Celebrities, My Family, Vanity
When I saw Scotty Baldwin sitting alone at the hotel bar, I couldn’t stay away. The man was a legend. He had caught the bouquet at Luke & Laura’s wedding, threatened to contest his divorce from Laura, and started a fistfight with Luke, nearly landing...
by Amy | Jun 3, 2013 | List, My Family, Vanity
After a few years of not being able to read the fine print (apologies to my kid for the guess-the-dose Infant Advil), I broke down and bought my first pair of reading glasses. At the drug store counter, it was like the reverse of a teen nervously buying condoms. ...
by Amy | Jun 1, 2013 | My Family, Our Situation
Lord, I’ve upset the Catholics. Okay, just one Catholic, writing for AltCatholicah.com, in a post that was picked up by pop culture website Acculturated. Go read it, I’ll wait. Here’s the author’s beef with me – when Leigh Fitzpatrick Snead reads a mom blog, she...
by Amy | May 19, 2013 | My Family, Parenthood
I’ve never spent a night away from my child. This is not a badge of honor – more like a virginity that I’m desperate to lose but can’t because I’ve got no game. Sometime after Viv turned two, I realized I was ready for a little bit of adult time. I wasn’t...
by Amy | May 16, 2013 | My Family, Parenthood
I was due to write a new post for Circle of Moms, and I still had my brother and sister-in-law, imminent parents to be, on my mind. So I wrote this. Of course you want to bond with your new baby and stimulate her rapidly developing brain, but how do you play with...