Monthly Archives: April 2012

Park Slope AKA The Land of Neverending Material

If you ever find yourself suffering from a writer’s block, simply take a stroll through Park Slope.  I can 100% guarantee you will see at least one thing, incident or fruitcake mama* that will get your juices flowing. The other weekend, I threw the kids and a 2 hour supply of fruit snacks at my […]

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Well Ya Gotta Have Faith, Faith, Faith

I gotta have fai-aith. Why does every thought of mine force a correlating song into my head? I have no idea. Xavi had diarrhea all day on Sunday.  We thought it was just a fluke in the morning, but by the third bout in the early afternoon we realized we needed to go straight home […]

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Trouble

We are having a lazy day.  Xavi has a stomach bug and I want him to rest…and not spread his germs to any other little kids…or worry about cleaning ‘lakes’ from his diapers in public.  Never fun.  It is the kind of lazy day where you glance at the clock on the stove and want […]

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Two Years

Xavi, Mommy borrowed your Can Do! spirit and made a Tres Leches cake with whipped cream frosting…to bring to the sunny park.  Your tias and tios stayed up all night and helped me make shark cupcake toppers and frost the cupcakes.  We all love you that much. Last Sunday you turned two.  It was one […]

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Easy Peasy

What’s for Supper Wednesday?  Here’s tonight’s meal…well, if I am correct in assuming it will mirror last night’s meal.  Which I am, of course. A bag of nuts from the bodega and a large Poland Spring water. (Because I work so hard at retaining my New England roots while living here in New Yahk.) Don’t […]

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