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The 5 Stages of Building an Obscenely Large Dollhouse
Oh, man, am I in trouble. My mom wanted to buy Viv a dollhouse and requested my input on which kind to get. I found a Kidkraft model online that looked perfect -- colorful, creative, and fun. It even had an elevator, just like the Barbie Dream House that rocked my...
Why I Never Thought My Fertility Treatments Would Fail
Author's Note: If you've been reading Carriage Before Marriage for a while, you know my IVF odyssey wrapped up nearly a year ago. Writing this post for mom.me gave me some closure. I know how lucky I am to have my daughter, and we haven't totally given up hope on a...
May I Inspect Your Gadgets? Confused Bride Needs Help With Wedding Registry
Mating for life doesn’t scare me. Choosing plates, glasses and pans that we might be using for the rest of our lives has me FLUMMOXED. Yep, I’m starting to think about registering for wedding gifts, and I need your help. Married (and divorced) people: what are the...
8 Ways To Celebrate Thanksgivukkah
“Hey, you got turkey in my latke!” “Well, you got chocolate gelt in my cranberry sauce.” “Mom!” Get ready for a holiday showdown, because for the first time in 125 years, Thanksgiving and Chanukah are starting on the same day in November. This coincidence of the...
Secondary Infertility
As a mom, there are a few questions I hate answering: When are you due? Um, never, that bump is left over from the baby who’s now in preschool. When are you going back to work? I don’t know! I’m not ready. Are you planning to have another one? Lady, unless...
Empathy For Cheese
I'm still in bed with a busted back, so Viv and I have been watching a lot of iPad videos together -- animated nursery rhymes, mostly. Tonight I showed her "The Farmer in The Dell" -- that moldie oldie where the the farmer takes a wife, the farmer takes a wife,...
The Revenge of My Back & Why I’m Thankful
The most popular post I ever wrote made fun of my aging back, not once but three times. My back is having its revenge. Here are some of the words doctors used to describe the discs between my vertebrae: Herniated Ruptured Slipped Fragmented Extruded (That last one...
The Real Peril of Putting Carriage Before Marriage
It’s no secret that my fiancé and I had our daughter out of wedlock. Most people have been cool with it, and I don’t think our child, relationship, or society-at-large have suffered for our jumping the gun. However, I have discovered that there is one serious problem...
Sugar Shock: This Is The Year My Kid Discovers Halloween Candy
As a mom, you look forward to so many firsts: first smile, first word, first “I love you.” First candy binge was not on my list, but it’s coming. It’s coming fast. Last Halloween, I took my almost 2-year-old daughter trick-or-treating for the first time. She was...