Graceful Parenting in Austin

I’ve shared with ya’ll all of the money (you know, like the Free Box of Huggies Coupon) and fame (my Wall Street Journal interview that didn’t get published) that blogging brings. But I haven’t mentioned the many job opportunities. I was on Craig’s list the other day (trying to sell Neil Diamond tickets in San [...]

If you told me a few years ago that I would LOVE , LOVE, LOVE a one-hour long documentary radio show about banking, I would have said NO, NO WAY. There is NO WAY that I would listen to and enjoy and then spread the word about a one-hour long documentary radio show about banking…

It feels strange to check-in at the Labor and Delivery nurse’s station when you are just 18 weeks along. It is like a horse jockey walking into a Big and Tall men’s shop. It’s not like the sales people would be rude, they would just think that, most likely, he was lost.
I’m not really showing [...]

I waved to my neighbors. It was completely dark with just a little light from a street lamp. They were going for a walk. It was late for a walk. It was also late for a drive. I wondered if they could see my robe and slippers.
I wondered if it would be strange to get [...]

You hear about the famous bloggers who have thousands of subscribers and make forty grand a week, like my first blog crush, the Queen of Spain. My world has been only slightly different than that. My rewards come in the form of Huggies coupons and free tickets to a kids ballet if I write about [...]

I’m not a tell-all blogger, I don’t share the deepest, most personal struggles in my marriage or the most embarrassing thing my 11-year-old did at school or how my relatives make me crazy. My in-person relationships are more important than my blog and I’ve got to save something for my tell-all book, right? But this [...]

I was back at work last week, working from home, but as busy as I’ve ever been at work, especially since Baby Girl got sick again and then a hurricane hit Houston, where my family lives, so they were all in Austin, spending a lot of the time at my house. When is a girl [...]

I haven’t worn shoes for two weeks. Bed rest is over tomorrow. But Blue Eyes and I were thinking, since I’m able to walk around and sit up lately, that I could do these things while eating dinner at Threadgill’s. I had to find my shoes, they felt strange on my feet. I had to [...]

Sarah Palin fascinates me. A conservative and an ambitious, working Mom. It doesn’t fit into the every day definitions of how we divide the red and the blue and I love reading about how people react to her. It got me to thinking, I wonder what the Attachment Parenting folks think?
I’ve said already in this [...]

I just almost wet my pants the other day. I got this email…

My name is A. Alter, and I’m a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. I’m working on an article about church shopping and came across a blog post that you wrote about your church shopping experience. I was wondering if you would be [...]