I know envy is bad, I do. But it’s kind of like butter — I know it’s not healthy, but I can’t help but indulge at times.

So here are some things I envy in other moms:

Easy-goingness. I know it’s not a word, but you know what I mean. Moms who have this great ability to just roll with the punches and not get completely and utterly stressed out by all the work-life juggle insanity. Like your kid spilling milk on your new pants when you’re ten minutes late for an important meeting and the sitter calls in sick. (Not like that’s happened to me or anything…) Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday we had another in the series of oh-there-is-rarely-so-much-snow storms. When my daughter saw the snow falling outside she could hardy contain herself from running out in her pajamas. I convinced her that getting dressed first was a good idea and went looking for her snow pants.

They weren’t there.

They were hanging in her cubby back at preschool, from where I forgot to bring them home on Friday. Even though there was a chance of snow for the weekend. Even thought we always bring the 27 different things in her cubby home at the end of the week to sort through. I forgot them because while I was gathering up her stuff, talking to her teacher and listening to one of her friends tell me about his new Spiderman backpack I was also trying to find a number on my cell phone. (The reason I need the number was because I’d mis-scheduled a call and needed to cancel it. Another in the series of working mom missteps.) Read the rest of this entry »