Harried with Children

Harried with Children: Daydreams & Diatribes from the Mommy Hinterlands
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Smelling Like Vanilla

My hairdresser, we’ll call her Whitney (because that is her name) was studiously studying what happens when she does my hair and then it receives no care and no consideration and no touch up cut for 5 months. “Um, let’s start to work on some of this shag.” “Go for it.” Whitney is an adorable [...]

My Vanity Left Me Years Ago for a Much Younger Woman

I walked out of the house today in the jeans I could find, a shirt that no one claimed after xmas last year at my Dad’s and a pair of black clogs that are so scuffed they look like I’ve been painting in them. How did this happen? I used to ‘go shopping’.  It was [...]

Little Miss-Understood

The case for 3-pair socks: I really called this one wrong.  About 2 years ago my daughter decided the best expression of herself was to wear mismatched socks.  To school, to parties, to special occasions.  Really mismatched sometimes.  Like these here. I hated it.  I felt like it made her look like no one noticed [...]