Mama Blah Blah

The Blah Blah Family has had our fair share of crappy luck with housing. Since 2006, we have rented three houses in the Los Angeles area, an...

Help! My kid is becoming a tween! Let’s look at the evidence: (1) She is borrowing my clothes. Right now she prefers my T-shirts to her ...

With all that's been going on in the past couple of months, I realize I have not yet written about Ceeya's transition to preschool...

What a whirlwind the past couple of weeks have been. My grandmother has been gone for two weeks already and I feel like I still have not had...

After 85 years, she is gone. My grandmother passed away late Wednesday night. There are no words. I am grateful for her. That is all I can t...

Dear Anonymous Woman who Wanted Just a Small Salad This Afternoon, I am sympathetic to you. I realize that it could just as easily be me who...

Me and my two lovelies. The picture feels like a hug to me.

Sweet Dub is out tonight, taking photographs for a client. I am home with the kids, who seem to be doing everything possible to tap dance on...

1. Orange gerbera daisies on my desk and a bright orange balloon tied to my chair by a co-worker. Leftover from a festive event yesterday, t...

My sister left me a message this morning that my grandmother fell. My grandmother is 85 years old and has stomach and lung and maybe liver c...

1. Ceeya slowly expanding the repertoire of things she will eat. In the past couple of weeks she has added French bread, plain spaghetti, br...

Viva has been asking for a dog since she was 3 years old. For a couple of years there, she would ask for a dog pretty much Every. Single. Da...

Happy Love Day! I am filled with love for you and the universe. And yet I did not get you anything for Valentine’s Day. No roses, no chocola...

Earlier this week, I was working from home one day and my Internet service (which is very, shall we say, quirky, at best) suddenly decided i...

First off, apologies for the misleading post title. It’s not about digging out from the snow, and as a native of New England, my sympathies ...

Last week, I went to see my primary care physician because I’ve had a low-grade earache for a couple of months and it recently started becom...

After a week of back and forth over whether we needed a referral for Ceeya and in what format, I finally cleared it all up and dropped by th...

Happy New Year! So far, this year 2011 has been very busy. We are almost a week into it, and it doesn’t suck exactly, but I was hoping for ...

Feeling a bit grinchy today. Discovered that a package containing Christmas gifts that I ordered online was stolen from the FedEx station. D...

So the infant/toddler day care facility where Miss Ceeya frolics during the week has an age cap of roughly 2.5 to 3 years old. At that point...