For an entire month my family and I lived, traveled and ate our way through Italy. We picked herbs from our garden, painted watercolors during the hot afternoons, swam in the pristine lake, ate endless amounts of fresh pasta and gelato, and drove all over the country in a quest to open up our daughters’ [...]
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Living La Dolce Vita
Posted in Italy, nyc moms post, Travel, tagged dolce vita, family travel, Italy, lay offs, parenting, recession, summer in italy, traveling with kids, twins, unemployment on July 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Three months ago while I was in the middle of preparing dinner my husband called from work and told me that he had been laid off. You’d think in this economy I wouldn’t have been surprised, but the mass lay offs at his company had come in January and he had survived, so come April, [...]
The Doctor Will Not See You Now
Posted in nyc moms post, tagged birth control, doctor, healthcare, medical school, nycmomsblog, ob/gyn, physician, rebecca levey, twins, womens health on June 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am 37 years old. I have been going to the gynecologist for about 20 years. During that time I graduated from high school and college, started a career, got married, gave birth to twins, tried many different forms of birth control and brands of birth control pills, and changed doctors 4 times. One thing [...]
The Recession’s Front Line: Our Schools
Posted in education, kids, life in nyc, nyc moms post, politics, tagged budget cuts, DOE, Education, joel klein, katie couric, kindergarten, mayor bloomberg, New York City Public Schools, new york magazine, nyc, nycmomsblog, parenting, politics, stimulus on May 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The day after our SVmoms conference call with Katie Couric about Children of the Recession, the NYC Department of Education (DOE) announced system wide cuts to the New York City public schools. The official amount was 5%, but at my daughters’ school it was about 15%. This is on top of the fact that our [...]
Wii Are Family
Posted in kids, nyc moms post, technology, toys, video games, tagged addiction, american Idol, High School Musical, raising twins, Sing it, Tetris, Video Games, Wii on May 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yes we are the last people on the planet to get a Wii. I resisted not because I was afraid that my 7-year-old daughters would be hooked and play video games at the expense of their insane imaginations. No, I resisted because I am a recovering addict. I have fallen down the deep dark hole [...]
NYC Moms: How About a First Fish in the White House?
Posted in kids, nyc moms post, politics, tagged allergies, Bo, dog allergy, First Dog Bo, Malia Obama, Obama, pet fish, Sasha Obama on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Upper West Side of Manhattan is one of the great dog capitals of the world. On a bright spring day the dogs can outnumber the strollers winding the paths of Riverside Park. One of the elderly ladies in my building even has a grand-dog who stays with her on the weekends; she does not [...]
The Accidental Book Burning Mom
Posted in books, kids, nyc moms post, tagged anxiety, Bad Case of Stripes, children's books, David Shannon, panic attack, phobias on April 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Let me start out by saying I LOVE BOOKS. I was the kind of kid who woke up on Saturday morning and didn’t emerge from my bedroom until the late afternoon because I was engrossed in Jane Austen or Charles Dickens. My family made pilgrimages from Brooklyn to Manhattan to go to the huge Barnes [...]
Motherhood Does Not Come With Sick Days
Posted in kids, life in nyc, nyc moms post, tagged sick days, sick kid, stay at home mom, strep throat on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It starts obviously enough, a cough and sudden burst of sneezing or big watery eyes and flushed cheeks, one of my kids is sick and happily looking forward to a sick day at home. I mentally delete all of the things on my to-do list for the next day knowing that I will not get [...]
The Mother of All New Year’s Resolutions
Posted in nyc moms post, tagged new year, new year's eve, resolutions on April 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Recently I was emptying out a closet and came across a box full of my old journals. And when I say old I mean old. These dated back to middle school and high school; back when keeping a journal seemed incredibly important, when everything in my life was filled with high stakes drama, angst and [...]
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