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...
by Amy | May 13, 2013 | My Family, Parenthood
Dear Jordan and Lana, I wish that Dave and I could be at your baby shower to celebrate, but as you may know, parents of small children rarely go anywhere. So instead, I’ve jotted down some words of wisdom that I hope you’ll find wise and not too wordy. People think a...
by Amy | May 8, 2013 | Giveaways, My Family, Vanity
A funny thing about raising a kid in Los Angeles is that you’re bound to run into some celebrity parents. Viv is not even 2 ½, but she’s already chatted up Pink and her daughter Willow, been cootchie-cooed by Amber Valletta at Trader Joe’s and met Don Cheadle outside...
