mothers on the verge

I am so ashamed... I have sadly neglected you. I do hope you'll forgive me. My only excuse is... a full-time job, two children, a husband (although admittedly Alpha Male is very low-maintenance) and an increasingly fuzzy brain. MM and I started this blog when I was freelancing and less of a wage-slave than I am now. I might have been a little bored back then in between projects but I had plenty of glorious time to spend writing about the minutae of my daily life in the hope it would resonate with with other mothers or whoever else chanced across the blog. It turned out that the things MM and I wrote about from either side of the Pond struck a chord with people all over the world, from as far afield as Japan, Malaysia and Australia. How cool is that? Suddenly, the stuff MM and I talk about - with each other and our respective friends in London and NYC - along with the stuff we usually only think about (there's more room for bravery on a blog than out in the big bad world, after ...

...So much so that you can now check out some of our snarky-best on honestbaby.com Link: YLM is already up and running on there in the story section....the site also has some super cute stuff to buy for your rabbit (which I may need now that I'm apparently hobbled in the hip department...)

I hate to be so Manhattan-centric – but when did it become okay for Brooklyn mamas to cheer their borough while grinding ours in the dust? Somehow, if you’re not a brownstone-living, Bugaboo-pushing, Brooklyn-based mama you are about as un-hip as it comes in Gotham. Well, I am happy to report that there are plenty of us, chic (uh), hip (er), cool mamas hanging out in our Manhattan playgrounds. And while we may not have the square-footage to lord over our Brooklyn borough compadres, we also don’t have to suffer the various subway trains that snake slowly through Brooklyn’s neighborhoods just to get home. Oh, you all have cars? Nice – ever try to park in the CITY? Sure I sound a bit defensive. Maybe because I’ve read yet another story today about what it takes to be hip to be a mama – this one courtesy of The New York Observer which claims (again...) that Manhattan is d-e-a-d and the hipster parenting crowd is now ensconed in Brooklyn. Apparently, now even my zip code now makes me an unc...

A huge thank you to Stephanie Wood, Meagan Francis and all the rest at BabyTalk for mentioning our blog! We're going to step away from being cranky mamas for one minute and say: You guys rock! Everyone go to www.babytalk.com right now and check it out: GREAT SITE and GREAT MAGAZINE! Link: Or if that doesn't work (a mothersontheverge tech issue....) try the old cut and paste... http://www.parenting.com/parenting/article/0,198040,1175596_1,00.html? (and now for our regularly scheduled snarky programming...)

Yep -- went away with the rabbit and The Prince on a two week drive down the California coast. So needed. So lovely. So insane. I have to admit I expected the worst, which is why my suitcase resembed a life-saving kit -- mine. And weighed more than my own body weight. Okay, well, more than the rabbit's -- by far. But amazingly, the tricks were not needed as much as I thought. here are the highlights in the rabbit's own words: "Are we there yet?" "I don't like THAT kind of pizza. It has green things on it." (that would be basil...) THUMP "I fell out of bed!!! Find me!" "I don't like the inside stuff." (That would be the eggroll) "Watch out for the poo-poo mama." (That would be orange juice spilled on the ground --the rabbit lives in NYC) "I don't like being wet!" (This amid a rain storm that caused homes to flood away in Northern California.) "Redwoods are big!" "I don't like THAT kind of ...

Okay peeps -- YLM and I messed up huge -- I've been away on a much needed vacation and she has been away with crazed work life and we haven't posted in nearly two months. This after getting a rave review and nice nod from Parenting magazine's BayTalk site. How lame are we? I guess no lamer than anny mom out there trying to juggle it all. So here's my promise to all you -- a post a day. Yes, I know that's insane. But I'm going to try and make this happen. What I realized, after avoideing even checking the site for the past weeks, is that I missed hearing from you guys. And I missed my little "room of my own." So PLEASE come back! Find us! Write us!