Sons

First Born, Postpartum Depression, and Empty Nest Syndrome

Today my man child turns 17. I can’t believe time has flown so fast. I never knew how wonderful, frustrating, exhilarating and annoying motherhood could be when I had him. I so long to hold him and never let him go, which is so unlike me. When he was born, I refused to see or hold him. [...]

A Sweet Sixteen and A Wedding

I can’t believe its already Thursday! I feel as if I’m still playing catch-up after the Memorial Day weekend. I also have two major family events coming up in the coming weeks, a Sweet Sixteen and a wedding. My sons come out in each event, so you can imagine the running around I have been [...]

Wordless Wednesday: When Did You Know He Was Father Material?

Teddy, our youngest puppy, tends to cry a lot. I think it’s because he was taken from his mother at a very young age.  At those moments, Teddy runs to my teen. He’s Teddy’s favorite. He coddles him, as you can see by the picture below. To his chagrin, I snapped a picture. I couldn’t [...]

Andrew’s Birth Story

Where has the time gone? It seems like I just blinked and ten years zoomed by. Or is it just that I want to make time stand still. It seems like just yesterday… I was packing my bag, preparing for my scheduled cesarean. It had been a hard pregnancy. I was placed on bedrest for [...]

Puerto Rico Recap + Answers to WW

Working in Social Media affords me many opportunities, including my favorite, the ability to work from anywhere. I can work from home in my pajamas, at the park, as my puppies play, or even on a totally different island.  My island, where I currently reside, is a wonderful place to live. Its a hive of activity, full of [...]

Puppy + Harrassment Charge = Date?

  This past weekend, I met a man with the requisite 3 “H”: Handsome, Hardworking and HAWT! But let me start from the beginning… On Sunday, the boys and I went to the XYZ Pet Store in Chelsea to buy a few goodies for Shadow, my 4 1/2  month old puppy. While at the store, we noticed [...]

Wordless Wednesday: Christmas Tree

My Christmas tree was originally a 5ft fake tree. I’ve had it for about 5 years and brought it at a 99¢ store for about $25. This year my sons decided to help and set up the tree. Its came out beautifully except for one teeny tiny thing … it shrunk by about 3 ft! Seems [...]

The Best Gift I Ever Gave

SWAGG is a free mobile app (download here) that lets you shop smarter using your mobile phone. Buy, send or swap SWAGG GIFTS and organize your old school plastic gift cards. For every download of the app between now and Dec. 31, 2010, SWAGG will donate $1 to Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) , up [...]

We Are Not At Disney =(

Let me begin this post by saying, “We are not at Disney.” Everything that could have went wrong did. My sons’  couldn’t find their last minute items, the taxi got stuck behind an unloading truck in midtown Manhattan, and when I went to print out our tickets, I was told to see the agent. I should have [...]

Children are not Mini Adults

Image: Simon Howden / FreeDigitalPhotos.net My sons are pretty mature for their age. I don’t coddle or baby them, not because I don’t want to, but because as a single mother, I don’t have the time.  I never realized just how much I treated them like mini adults until recently when I was talking to my youngest. [...]

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