I was recently invited to give a TedX talk at Ursuline College. And I said (sort of off the top of my head), “Rebranding the single mom. That is what I am trying to do in a small way, every single day. I don’t think that the reflection of single moms in the media is accurate and I also know that in order to make changes in the external messaging, I needed to change my own internal dialogue.”
Read More ›My sister warned me. She told me this would happen. A few days before I gave birth to Ellie, my sister called me, sounding slightly frantic that she hadn’t mentioned two VERY important facts earlier on in my pregnancy (and hers, given that our due dates were 3 days apart). “Car, two things…one, you need […]
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Kenny Rogers may have said it best when he said, “You’ve got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, know when to walk away… know when to run.” Perhaps he was talking about gambling…perhaps he was talking about love…or perhaps he was talking about parenting a toddler. I’m gonna go with […]
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I can’t lie to save my life. And if I manage to tell a falsehood, anyone that even sort of knows me, know that all you have to do is ask me twice to get the real answer out of me. Friend: “Do you like this paint color?” Me: “Yes!” (said in really high pitched […]
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I remember back when I was pregnant with Ellie, a coworker asked me what I planned to do for childcare. I explained that a nanny was really the only option…being single and working crazy hours didn’t make daycare even a remote possibility. I HATED even saying the word “nanny”. It is such a loaded word…one […]
Read More ›Recently, a public relations executive for an unnamed organization said that parents should “engage in imaginative play with their children for at least an hour every day.” At first glance, this parent wonders when everyone will stop telling me what I should and should not do with my child. Full disclosure, I am still not […]
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Everyone always says that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but as I parent a 2-year-old, I wonder if it is more important than say, sanity. I am really beginning to wonder. This is how every morning goes in my house. We wake at 630am with the alarm clock known as my […]
Read More ›Thanks to everyone who has helped make New York City her home. Check out the video I made for her that sums up the last two years in 2 minutes (well really 3 minutes and 14 seconds, but 2 years in 2 minutes has a ring to it). Fingers crossed Phillip Phillips doesn’t mind being […]
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Ellie is turning two on Monday, which is both mind-boggling and heartwarming. Everyone told me the days would be long, but the years would be short…but I didn’t fully understand until now, how loooooong those days would be, and how shoooooort these years would end up feeling. And because the days are so long and […]
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She broke me. She, being my 22-month-old darling, broke me. Well it was a combo of her and trying to do laundry in Manhattan. But regardless, Sunday marks the first time my child actually made me cry. Ok – here is the situation…in our building of 6 floors with 8 units on each, there are […]
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