The oddest thing happened to me yesterday.  I took the Boy on a walk.  That's not the weird part....we walk almost every day.  We walked our usual route and took a break in a new park to swing on the baby swing.  Still nothing unusual.  There was another mom there with her … [Read more...]

My sister was horrified at the picture I chose to use in my profile here on UrbanMoms.  If it were up to her, she would have chosen an older picture of me where I was a little more done up, like this old black & white headshot that I've attached.I look pretty plain in my UrbanMoms profile … [Read more...]

I was the BEST MOTHER EVER!  I knew everything there was to know about raising a child- and, seriously, how hard could it be?  I am a trained teacher.  If I could handle thirty Grade 5 children, then how difficult could one tiny baby be?  I was pretty sure that the secret-society … [Read more...]

I wish, when I was pregnant, that someone would have let me know how completely unprepared I really would be for motherhood.  It seems that no matter how many books I read or how many other moms I talk to, there is always something about having a baby that throws me for a loop and knocks me off … [Read more...]