Ok. I’m gonna turn things real here: I don’t really exercise these days. (The shame. The shame.) Real efforts towards fitness maybe happens once a week tops (that’s IF I can pull off a Sunday afternoon quick trip to the gym while my husband stays at home with the girls). It’s true. (And, the fact…
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Mother’s Day wish list: Consider yourself warned.
Dear everyone (especially Husband), Last week you asked me if there was anything in particular on my Mother’s Day wish list. I said No, don’t be silly. I lied. Here’s what I’d love for Mother’s Day this year. (You asked, so please don’t be confused when you read it in print.) The following requests have been…
Top 3 tips for faking supermom status.
The other day I got a most sweet (and, ego-feeding) text from a longtime friend. “You really are supermom” it read. (Aha! I thought, Another one fooled!) My head wanted to fly off right then and there and do a million summersaults high into the air and then land on my feet with an Olympic landing,…
Armenian Moms: Step up our parenting.
Armenian moms are hot in the news these days. Kim Kardashian in her red pantsuit at one of the most somber memorials on the planet… Kanye West performing IN Yerevan, Armenia’s Swan Lake… The Pope declaring in front of God and everyone that 1915’s atrocities against the Christian citizens of then-Armenia were in fact genocide. Who knew it’d take…
Oscars: Blinks, Blurs & Being Mom.
Change. Life. Oscars. “I blinked and then here I am!” she said. Right there onscreen. I hear you woman. I kinda feel the same way. My heart swelled when legendary actress Julie Andrews spoke those words onstage at the 2015 Academy Awards, talking about the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music… right after Lady Gaga…
Terrified? Fabulous. Maybe you’ll win an Oscar…
And the Oscar goes to… Mother, Grandmother and Master Costume Designer Colleen Atwood for Into the Woods? Maybe. We’ll soon find out. And to think she was TERRIFIED to take the job. But could anyone else have reinvented Cinderella’s look like that? This week I was a lucky duck and somehow beyond all reason or logic scored…
Love after having a baby? Or two? Hm.
“L” is for the way you look at me. “O” is for the very one I see. “V” is very, very extraordinary. “E” is even more than anyone that you adore… I know you know this one. I actually performed this classic with a live band to my husband at our wedding reception. I sang my little champagne-buzzed heart out. (Now…
