Wendy's Excellent Adventure

The belly is obviously impossible to hide. It's out there in a big way. And the resulting waddle is unavoidable. I can't help havi...

I read somewhere about a recent study concluding that the myth of pregnancy brain, i.e. , that pregnancy makes you stupid, is just that -- a...

Happy blog-iversary to me, happy blog-iversary to me... I just realized today that a couple of weeks ago was my 3-year blog-iversary. I sta...

He's still a few months away from the official start date, but I do believe that Zeke has entered the Terrible Twos.  All of a sudden, e...

I am not a cuddler in bed.  I don't mind brief periods of cuddling, but for the most part, I don't like being touched in my sleep.  ...

As with anything else, being a parent has its ups and downs.  But just as the downs can come out of nowhere -- a tantrum mysteriously erupti...

Who knew that it would take getting pregnant to hit on the surest, fastest weight-loss regimen I've ever used?  Not that the whole low-c...

So far during this pregnancy, I've been pretty sane about the shopping thing. And I mean specifically, shopping for The Joey. Some of ...

Well, shame on me for being all glib and smug about my blood sugar and how all I needed was a meal plan or a list of what I could and couldn...

As much fun as it is to live with and raise a toddler, especially one who is generally a sweet, funny little monkey whose vocabulary is expl...

I have a long history of sleep issues. Even before I developed chronic insomnia at the age of 27 or so (coinciding with the onset of clinic...

I'm so tired of being pregnant.  And I'm so tired of bitching about how tired of being pregnant I am.  But I just feel like it's...

Zeke likes to brush his teeth while he's taking a bath.  Or, more accurately, he likes it when I put kids' toothpaste -- which taste...

Remember when I went on and on about how I think I'm a good mother ? Yeah, I need to revisit that assessment.   Because last night, in a...

I feel like I've spent excessive time and interweb space writing about what a pain in the ass it is to be pregnant. And it is. I wish ...

The lovely, talented and hilarious LiLu does a weekly segment called TMI Thursdays involving (over)shares of embarrassing, humiliating sto...

Though Zeke usually wakes up during the night, he has generally been pretty good at going to bed. We'll play after school, maybe at the...

Let me start out by saying that I think I'm a good mother.*  I really do.  I try very hard to be loving and fun and to instill in Zeke a...

Last night I slept in a t-shirt that Kathleen got me from the Democratic National Convention last summer. It's got one of those Shepard...

Introducing Zeke to the banjo, Hawaii 2007 My dad, being a Jewish guy from Detroit, is naturally a big fan of bluegrass and old-timey countr...