Birthday

That's how my package from the Democratic National Committee arrived.

Maybe if the post office wasn’t hiring a bunch of Republicans, it could get the job done and make a little profit on the side. But instead of delivering your mail, I was writing elsewhere: Oh Nature, How I Hate You: On Richmondmom.com, I complain about Hurricane Irene, the not-in-DC Earthquake and a colony of [...]

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Dear Scott, You turned 33 about a week ago. And we celebrated by making a cake and frosting from scratch and using said frosting to fill in the grand canyon that formed in the cake. Oh, and I think that we watched soccer. I remember being very bored for about 90 minutes in the middle [...]

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Happy 2nd Birthday, Wild Child.

My daughter turns two today. She sweet and funny and the head of the school stopped me to say: N is amazing. So I’m pretty much terrified for the teenage years. Because already N knows how to party.

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The hats were her idea.

My sister’s birthday was Friday. She turned 107 years old. Wait, I mean 27 years old. (Having a sister with a blog is FUN!) When my parents brought her home from the hospital, I was 5 and a half. The oldest. The greatest. THE ONLY. About 6 weeks into this bundle of joy’s stay, I [...]

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With Christmas rolling in, gifts are on my mind. Which can be translated into YOUR GIFTS ARE GOING TO BE LATE. And OF COURSE, my son wrote a letter to Santa and included a SANTA KITTEN. No, that’s not a stuffed animal with a santa hat. He wants a REAL kitten. I’m torn. I feel [...]

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I spent the day with my mom and sister. We shopped and ate and got manicures. The wedding ring on my finger and the voicemail filled with screaming children were the only reminders that I wasn’t the hippie teenager alternating between being Alex and being annoying. (Because ALEX is never annoying. Except when I refer [...]

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A few weeks ago, my husband took the kids to a birthday party while I stayed home and worked and wrote (maybe I should’ve put this BEFORE the 50/50 marriage post since y’all would’ve seen that I clearly get my 70%, too). As we know, Scott’s solo-parenting track record is not nearly as pristine as [...]

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I believe strongly in cake. Birthday cake. Valentine’s Day cake. Cake to say hello. Cake to say good-bye. I Heart Cake t-shirts. So not surprising that: I would buy a cake much too big for E’s birthday. We would enjoy eating it for weeks. We would get another cake for my birthday. I’m eating that [...]

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