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Our cat snores

Loudly, like a grown man. One night I kept nudging DH and telling him to roll over, thinking it was him snoring. Finally he got annoyed and said, “It’s not me!” Now I lock Drake, the cat, out of the bedroom at night. Otherwise he sleeps under the bed where I can’t reach him and [...]

I am so tired

DD woke up last night and started shaking me saying, “Juice please. Juice please. Mama, I want juice.” Or maybe it was in the wee hours of the morning. I don’t know. I was too tired even to look at the clock. I thought about getting up, to make sure she didn’t get into anything. [...]

What’s in a name

My daughter was born on election day, 2004. I told my husband that if he voted while I was in labor, I would name her Reagan.

Floatation Devices

I have discovered that people will passionately defend their choices in flotation devices, in the same manner that they will champion cloth diapers and vilify pacifiers. We had a lovely holiday. We went to C’s. DD did a little happy dance when she saw K and rushed into the pool. It was freezing cold. So [...]

I would like to mock my family openly…

in the manner of David Sedaris, without catching hell. How can I arrange this?