It’s the first day of my beach vacation. I pour myself into my new bikini and avoid all close encounters with the mirror before heading out the door. I don’t feel great, my post-baby fat hanging out over the top of the bikini bottoms, so I try to rearrange my bikini top to enhance my […]
MY VACATION? IT WAS FINE…
I am back from a week-long vacation on the beach in Italy. How was it, you ask? It was fine. Yes, only fine. People keep asking that question at work and seem shocked by my answer. Um hello, I spent a week in a small condo with my mother and father-in-law, limited aircon and barely […]
THE BRITISH SINK
When Nomad Papa and I moved into our rental house here in the UK, we thought something was wrong with the kitchen sink. Every time we turned on the hot water, it would jet out a mega-strong stream that rebounded off the bottom of the sink and soaked the front of our shirts. 30 seconds […]
THIS IS NOT A FASHION EMERGENCY (aka THE SCHOOL UNIFORM)
As the mother of two girls, I see a lot of fashion emergencies. Some are small on the richter scale – not being able to get the heel of the sock on the right part of the foot or trying to shove a giant head through an armhole. Some are of gigantic, house-leveling proportions – […]
MOMMY VACATION
Next week I am going away on “vacation” and I use that word quite loosely as I hardly think that staying with your in-laws and sleeping in twin beds with the bedroom door open counts as a vacation. This year I am getting a special treat as Nomad Papa and the girls have left three […]
POTTY TRAIN IN ONE DAY
Are you at wit’s end trying to potty train your child? Have you bought multiple potties and toilet seat adapters, given out stickers and m&ms and spent hours convincing your child to just do ANYTHING while sitting comfortably on the potty – all to no avail? If so, this post is for you. First off, […]
THE SEARCH FOR A MOMKINI
Every year the Nomad family and I pack up and head to the beach in Italy for a vacation. Before you all start screaming at the screen in jealousy, let me set the scene for you: we spend our whole vacay with my in-law’s, sleep in separate twin beds with the door open (or else […]
ROYAL BABY MANIA
So apparently there is going to be a new royal baby sometime soon. And by soon I mean that no one here in the UK has any idea of when he or she is coming. Before we moved here I was kind of a little excited to see what kind of hoopla we’d get to […]