http://mothergoosemouse.com we could all use a drink now and then Fri, 09 May 2008 12:00:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When Tacy was three weeks old, I made my way from the Upper East Side to Fort Lee, New Jersey to close on our apartment.  I strapped her into the Bjorn, took a bus to the pier, then boarded a ferry to Weehawken, where Kyle met us with a borrowed ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/05/09/leaving-on-a-jet-plane/ The lovely Kelly of Mocha Momma (featured in a BlogHer interview by Surrender, Dorothy author and Sleep is for the Weak editor, Rita Arens) told me to do this meme. That's right, she told me to. And while I'm used to giving the orders around here, I can take direction ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/05/08/maybe-if-i-do-this-meme-mocha-momma-will-let-me-touch-her-hair-at-blogher/ Not for me, but for my fellow mamas.  That's what I want to see this Mother's Day. Why do so many mothers pin their hopes on a single day out of the year?  Why does it have to be such a make or break occasion?  Cards, flowers, phone calls, breakfast in ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/05/07/peace-love-and-understanding/ I've been mulling over the Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana/Vanity Fair brouhaha, trying to figure out why I'm more bothered by the vehemence in many of the opinions being voiced than by the photo itself. I'll admit that I don't know much about Miley Cyrus or the character Hannah Montana, but I think ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/05/06/out-of-character/ ...when you can be a Bangable Blog Babe? I found this link in my Site Meter. I don't know where the hell he got that god-awful picture of me that's at least fifteen years old, and I realize that, at #5 on the list of May's Blog Babes, I just ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/05/05/who-needs-some-meaningless-bloggie/ I had two worries about Tacy's flight to Washington. One, that she would have to go to the bathroom mid-flight, and I wouldn't be there to remind her to hover over the pee-splattered toilet seat. And two, that in spite of her ability to charm the pants off almost anyone, ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/05/03/better-than-being-ostracized-by-a-bunch-of-old-farts-and-sanctimommies/ A little over a year ago, I wrote a post titled "Mothering Two". Now, three wonderful blogfriends are each expecting their second child, and we're all sharing advice with them about the transition from one to two. In the weeks leading up to CJ's birth, I would gaze at Tacy and ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/05/02/mothering-two-part-two/ Updated below Today, Tacy will fly to Washington DC to visit my parents for ten days. She's been asking to do this for months, and I kept telling her that we'd do it in May, when she was off-track from school and the weather was nice*. And now May is here, ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/05/01/go-east-young-lady/ Pounds, that is. I'm having a little trouble getting back into my old jeans as quickly as I did after the girls were born. Ten pounds isn't much, but on a five-foot four-inch frame, it's enough to keep me in elastic waistbands. Which is depressing, so I try not to ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/04/29/three-months-and-ten-to-go/ There's a sequence to life that's drilled into the heads of young girls - by their parents and by popular culture - high school, then college; marriage, then children. It's touted as the "right" way to do things, a modern version of how to meet and marry the prince ... http://mothergoosemouse.com/2008/04/28/the-ideal-of-nonconformity/