The Young Mommy Life

I guess I’ll never really know for sure what I’m doing with this whole motherhood thing. My latest conumdrum? Figuring out what the h&#! to feed these kids. My daughter, who’s two, has survived this past year on basically four foods: bananas, yogurt, Cheerios and oranges. And orange juice. Lots and lots of orange juice. [...]

Whenever I’m at a store without the kids, and I hear a child having a meltdown two aisles over, I can only think one thing: “Thank God that isn’t my kid!” Tell me I’m not the only one. To me, there is NOTHING worst than a meltdown in the middle of a public place. There’s no [...]

My daughter (a.k.a. The Star Of This Blog) asked me for some grapes. I quickly obliged, since for the past day and a half all she wanted to eat were jalapeno tortilla chips. As she sits on the couch next to me watching the True Hollywood Story of LL Cool J (I’m a bad mom, [...]

My daughter is terrified of Koosh balls. Like she has this irrational fear that it will grow legs and a face and swallow her whole. We have one that we bring out occasionally to show her that there’s nothing to be scared of. “See, sweetie?” we say as we toss it back and forth. “It [...]