Mama Blah Blah

In these economically distressed times, most days I've been brown-bagging it to work. Except I don't use a brown paper bag, I use on...

Note to self: when it is 3 am and your baby is wide awake and lying next to you gurgling and smiling and staring into your eyes and not by a...

In all the excitement over the inauguration yesterday, I forgot to mention that this weekend, Viva made her first attempt at running away fr...

The Blah Blahs took yesterday off to view the inauguration at home together as a family. Yesterday in the late morning, Sweet Dub’s Blackber...

When Sweet Dub and I first began dating we kept being struck by how similar we were. Naturally, some of that was just part of getting to kno...

With all the turmoil in the world right now, and all the burning questions of the day – should the U.S. government bail out, well, pretty mu...

The coffee maker in our office break room is broken. NOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooo! P.S. Two of us who work closely together have infants...

My first week back at work was rough, especially after not only being on maternity leave but having thoroughly enjoyed the holiday season. O...

Day Four of work. Buried! Up to my neck! Ridiculous! In lieu of a real post, I give you pictures of my girls -- pictures that, had I gotten ...

Adieu, Maternity Leave. As of yesterday, I am back at work. I have a new, larger office with nice furniture and, because one of the senior t...

Little to no blogging of late, because Viva and Sweet Dub have been on vacation and that means we all spend a lot of time together, very lit...

It's raining and chilly here in Southern Cal and that makes me want to do not much of anything. Despite the rain, after dropping Viva of...

Aside from all the holiday hoopla, I'm neck-deep in childcare research right now. The latest on the school issue: I visited the local el...

Our next-door neighbor is a music producer. I just sat down at my laptop to research stuff on Ye Olde Interwebs and I can hear someone next-...

This morning, after I dropped Viva off at school, and after a very pleasant experience at my local Trader Joe's where they treated Cily ...

November has come and gone and I have barely blogged at all. Happy December! There were many moments I blogged in my head last month. Two th...

My darling second child, henceforth known here as Cily, is (not surprisingly) nowhere near sleeping through the night. I thought I was tired...

Oh my God. So after two weeks without Internet access, I am finally online, I just wrote a post and hit "publish," and Blogger tel...

Thank you to everyone for all your good wishes, compliments, and blessings! I may have mentioned that when Celia was born, my sister came do...

I promised you pictures, and here they are! Miss Celia, just a few minutes after birth... Little Miss C, after a feeding yesterday... Up clo...