Twitter / littlemissmochajen | July 24, 2010
Life has a way of stripping away the nonessentials one birthday at a time until we’re left with our real selves, unashamed before the world, refined by experience, shaped by the things we’ve learned and the passions we’ve pursued… And finally, we know what we know, and we love what we love, and we still [...]
jen | July 6, 2010
Tiny onesies, wee sleepers, piles of pink and blue. A collection of infant carseats and other scattered baby items. Extra diapers in assorted sizes. I have kept them all. Even as we prepared for our recent move, I refused to get rid of any of our baby items. Our second was just over a year, [...]
jen | July 5, 2010
Last year, after a frazzled start to fall, I posted the following on Twitter: “I’m declaring November ‘Take Care of Me’ month so I don’t go into December totally depleted. Who’s with me?” I got reply after reply. I was amazed. I tried again later…and again, moms were retweeting it with an “I’m in!” and [...]
jen | June 29, 2010
Is it me, or does the sun seem to be shining a little brighter today? We step outside of our hotel, and blink into the sunlight. It is a special day, one my children will remember forever. We are fortunate to be able to be in attendance as world leaders converge in this proud city [...]
jen | May 25, 2010
At the age of thirty I began walking a path that would lead me to myself. You’ll forgive me if this all sounds a bit paradoxical, a bit “chicken and the egg”. What I mean is, at thirty I became a mother, and in doing so came face to face with the truth of my [...]
jen | May 16, 2010
I wrote the following back in January while we were planning our recent move, but decided to save it for our anniversary. Twelve years ago today we were married. It seems both a moment and a lifetime ago. “What are you two, the poster children for marriage?” This question was posed to us by an acquaintance, years [...]
jen | May 13, 2010
Last week I was invited by the lovely Erica Diamond to write a guest blogger post for her blog Women on the Fence. She and I have recently connected on Twitter, and I have to say I love the name and concept of her site. Women on the Fence, boy, I am one and I know many! [...]
jen | May 4, 2010
“We should all go out for drinks sometime!” Amazing how simple an idea this would have been before children. Friends who enjoyed each other’s company during the day deciding that a girls’ night out would be great fun indeed. They would have made a plan for an upcoming weekend, gone out and had a great [...]
jenadmin | April 6, 2010
You have to wonder who came up with the brilliant idea of windows built into our front entrance doors. Oh, I know the sun is lovely, the light so welcome, and the sunbeams so…wait a minute, how the hell am I supposed to pretend I’m not home? This isn’t meant to be an admission of [...]
jenadmin | April 6, 2010
Welcome to round two of the little game I’m calling Mystery Food. Maybe you saw my last post where I started this little theme – if not, you can read it here. And if you don’t happen to think reading labels is worthwhile, someday I’ll tell you about the beef shepherd’s pie I once bought that had [...]
