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So, the charity for which Aubrey O’Day is playing on Celebrity Apprentice deals with the tireless fight against bullying. And I think this is unfortunate, because every time I see her on the screen I want to punch her in the face. It’s probably not an accident, though. Because every time I encounter...

There’s no real reason for this post except to say that LL has her first Lakers jersey. Except, it’s really a crawler, but you don’t really refer to things like a baby’s “first Lakers crawler.” The number is Pau Gasol’s, and this is not accidental but it’s also not what would be my first choice. (I...

Having a baby in the house makes purpose seem that much more important. The second kid also seems to bring with it a new impatience for dealing with things that don’t fit. I think it might be something to do with having less time and wanting to be more productive with the time you do have. There wa...

There have been some misunderstandings perpetuated lately about how much money successful mommybloggers make. Because most of the really successful ones will not talk about how much they make except off the record, it is easy to assume that everyone who mommyblogs is fighting over gigs that are wort...

Both the best and the worst part about writing every day is that it takes away your self-consciousness. Girl babies allow you to put lotion on them after their baths. Or at least mine does. This is novel. While we are on the topic of babies, here’s an observation: the default assumption seems to be...

Most online depictions of depression differ greatly from my own experience of major clinical depression. Because of this, reading them often makes me irrationally angry. For the past few weeks I’ve been playing an iPad game called Royal Envoy wherein you are a city planner dispatched by a monarch to...

We are sleep training LL with Weissbluth’s Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child. Though I’ve never read Ferber, I think of Weissbluth as being a kind of Ferber light: basically the same theory, maybe a bit more namby pamby waffling in the Weissbluth model. Both seem to feel that just letting the baby ...

Last week for date night I suggested that we go see We Need To Talk About Kevin, the movie about the mother of a young sociopath which stars Tilda Swinton. It was a long shot because Mr. Right-Click struggles with watching movies that have negative themes and children — whether the children are the ...

Sitting here with cabbage stuffed in my bra, it’s tough not to get philosophical . . . I’m kidding: I would never actually stuff cabbage in my bra (lie), but I wanted that to be the first sentence of my weaning post. Because I’m weaning, yes I am. I made it to roughly 16 weeks, which is actually bet...

TEAT GIGGLE QUIET FINE BABY NAP SNACK AGED METABOLISM CHEATER SNIDE DO NOT GET SNIPPY WITH ME MISTER SNIPPY WAS NOT BEING SNIPPY YES YOU WERE SURGEON MOTHERFUCKER [SORRY, 'MOTHERFUCKER' IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE WORD'] VOWELS EPEE CONSONANTS XIS NEVER EQUALLY MIXED RESIGN CROOK TO PARDON "Words With ...