>It is time. Time to photocopy all (er, almost all) of my Nashville Scene columns and bring them home to my mother. “I’m glad you’re bringing them,” she told me on the phone yesterday. “But I’ll just bet I could go online and find them myself!” “No, Mom, you couldn’t!” I said quickly. “It’s like, […]

I’m watching my stepdaughter scrimmage on the soccer field when a mom standing beside me asks, “Which one is yours?” “Number 28,” I say, smiling proudly. She takes a step back and gives me the once-over. “Oh. You’re the stepmom.” “Uh. Yeah,” I say. “And this one,” she says, pointing at my two-year-old, playing in […]

> At long last, Suri Cruise has made her public debut. See the picture for yourself over at Mamarazzi.

>I remember a time when a hot date night meant dinner and drinks at a swank see-and-be-seen restaurant. I’d pair a sexy dress with stiletto heels, add a little extra mascara and head out ready to wow the world (or at least, my husband) with my drop dead come-hitherness. Now, I fear the excitement of […]

>So I’m wearing a bit of a cleavage-baring top today (all right, now that I’m pregnant, my cleavage begins right beneath my collarbone and every freakin’ top is cleavage-baring) and every time I pick up Baby, she tries to stick her hand into the little gap created by my, um, cleavage. “I need to get […]

>I did it. I went to a baby pageant yesterday. You’ll have to wait for next week’s Nashville Scene column for the details, but I will say that this man was there, along with his brand new 2-year-old protege. And if the video doesn’t say it all, then I don’t know what does. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLAXmTHvU44]

> It’s time again for the Perfect Post Awards, a monthly honor given by bloggers to their favorite posts of the preceding month. This month, my Perfect Post Award goes out to the amazingly lovely and talented Grace Davis for her post, I Have Returned. She managed to uniquely and hilariously convey the abject horror […]

> Thanks to the miracle that is Google, I’ve been getting lots of strange e-mails lately from searchers who feel a burning need to bare their souls to a random, but seemingly nice enough suburban housewife. That’s why today, I’m happy to present to you… THE NEW AND IMPROVED SUBURBAN TURMOILADVICE COLUMN! Now with e-mails!!! […]

>Some of you may remember the problems I’ve had with my mom and her e-mail forwards. She sends me somewhere between 2 and 12 a day, and frankly, it is driving me out of my mind. I love my mom, but she has the worst taste in forwards of anyone I know. Part of me […]

> I’m pretty sure that Kidz Bop is playing in a loop over Hell’s PA system. Because listening to a chorus of pre-pubescent crooners “sing” hits like Let’s Get It Started, Feel Good, Inc., and even Modest Mouse’s Float On is the cruelest form of aural torture I can imagine. I’ve thought long and hard […]