Click on the poll visuals below to appreciate these truly inspired baby Halloween costumes in their full sized glory. Please vote for your favorite.

I am forced to sit back and watch as my “perfect nursery” meets the hard realities of having AN ACTUAL BABY.

  You know where the blood 
  comes from on Halloween? It
comes from the the fingers of mothers
who sewed their kids ...

Sunday is Halloween.

What do baby-free vacations, Crispy Cremes, and Russell Simmons have in common? They’re all part of the Mommy Shorts weekly recap…

Since I have a design background, I tend to put an unreasonable amount of emphasis on how everything looks in my apartment which includes my ...

Sure, these slides look ridiculously awesome and if I had one as a kid I would think I had the coolest parents EVER (unless I had a friend who was ...

I love television. I do. Like really really LOVE it.

  Back to work tomorrow after
  two weeks at home with the
baby. Looking forward to catching
up on a lot of sleep there.

  Walking down the street singing
  "Wheels on the Bus". Without the
baby.

Dr. B says baths are not just for getting the baby clean, they are also huge opportunities for learning. And here I was busy obsessing over the hair on the bathroom floor and wondering why our stupid bath mat doesn’t stay suctioned to the bottom of the tub (does anybody else have this problem?) when I should be focusing on building my baby’s cognitive skills!

  The baby is teething. And she's
  got a runny nose. Between the 
two, her face looks like Niagara Falls
on a rainy day.

My husband, Mike and I are constantly at odds over who Mazzy more closely resembles. Why this makes a difference, I have no idea.