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Qu’est-ce que c’est? Better Run Run Run

by Maria Melee

on June 3, 2010 in Identity

So I’ve been trying to work out lately. (And by lately, I mean three times so far.) It’s a pretty big deal, since I hate exercising and hate being sore and hate being out of breath. But I also hate having stress and anxiety and sleep issues and I’m still trying to deal with them without getting on meds because I’m nursing and convinced that I’ll get every side effect known to man

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I’d Never Let My Child Act Like That

by Maria Melee

on May 3, 2010 in Parenting

Do you remember being young and single? Dodging children at the mall, casting annoyed looks at the kid whining in a restaurant? Dreading being anywhere near a baby on an airplane? Sometimes I still catch myself being annoyed by a child’s behavior. Those old lines of thinking slip back into place briefly. “Why don’t they discipline her?” “I’d never let my child act like that.”

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Froggy Socks and Make-Believe Emergencies

by Maria Melee

on April 27, 2010 in Parenting

When my older son started getting mobile and getting into everything, I baby-proofed like a crazy person. I didn’t let him touch 18+ month toys until the day of his 18-month “birthday.” I put rubber edges on furniture. I put up four baby gates. I used a video monitor. We were on top of that [...]

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My yard is messing with me.

by Maria Melee

on April 12, 2010 in Playing House

Growing up, we never had big oak trees or other types of leaf-shedding trees in our yard. We had palms, and some sort of crazy flowering purple tree, and a lot of bushes and pines. Now, the house we rent has some sort of oak-ish tree in the back yard that somehow drops approximately six [...]

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Preschool, a Whole New Place to Screw Up

by Maria Melee

on April 6, 2010 in Parenting

Remember the Breakfast Club? Those archetypes of cinematic goodness? Totally spot on. Also, they persist throughout life to a certain extent. Particularly in the realms of preschool-classroom-parents. You have the room mom who always remembers to get things done, organizes the school fairs and classroom cleanups and plans adorable flower-giving for the teacher’s birthdays. You [...]

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Leggo my Uggo (or Why I Don’t Talk to Grownups)

by Maria Melee

on March 31, 2010 in Identity

The other night I got to go to a Tampa Bay Lightning hockey game. (As we all know, I love hockey. Like, I love hockey.) Despite my silly boner for hockey players, I’m actually a pretty serious fan. I get really wound up and I scream and screech and thrash and in general make a [...]

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An Easter Confession

by IzzyMom

on March 22, 2010 in Playing House

I have a confession to make. I’ve never dyed Easter eggs with my kids. Yeah. When my kids were younger and at the right age to be introduced to the spring ritual of gaily dying Easter eggs at the kitchen table,  I was like “Noooo effing way! Toooo messy! I’m not some kinda crazy masochist!” [...]

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Can I Get an Order of FAIL With That?

by Maria Melee

on March 10, 2010 in Identity

Last weekend I watched Food Inc and solemnly swore to myself never to eat McDonalds again. Then I got my period and needed French fries from McDonalds more than I needed oxygen. I drove toward the gleaming arches in a hormonal fog, salivating at the thought of salty, probably-crack-infused goodness to sooth my aching crampy [...]

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Aim Your Lights Down Low

by Maria Melee

on December 1, 2009 in Playing House

This year, my friend Lauren and I decided on a whim to put my Christmas lights up about 45 minutes before she needed to head to the airport to go home. While my husband played World of Warcraft and the kids napped, we dug around in various closets until we found several gnarly piles of icicle lights to add to the tricked out new LED lights and drunk penguin we bought at Target.

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Is There an App for This? No? How About a Reality TV Show?

by IzzyMom

on November 17, 2009 in Playing House

When we moved into this house, there were three of us and one was still in diapers. Buying an overpriced 2/1 in the city seemed like a perfectly NOT stupid idea. Well, another potty-trained kid later, I’m thinking it was the stupidest thing I EVER lobbied for in my life. We’re cramped, property values have [...]

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