From the monthly archives:

December 2006

Aquaphor as under-eye cream

December 17, 2006

I’ve been using Aquaphor for years as a lip balm, but an NMF tipped me off to another great use for the ointment – eye cream.Â It’s goopy constitution will nourish and protect your delicate under eyes just as it does your baby’s bum.Â I’ve been trying it for the past few nights, and I [...]

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Mommy lit on the rise

December 17, 2006

The New York Times today covers the rising trend of “mom lit” – that genre of literature that used to be chick lit, now all grown up with babies and strollers.Â Apparently, the term is causing quite a ruckus in the writing world.Â Jennifer Weiner, the writer of “In Her Shoes,” “resents that women writing [...]

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How the mom stole Christmas

December 15, 2006

I have a dilemma.Â Next week, my company is hosting aÂ ”kids”Â holiday party, fit with a live Santa and all things holiday-related. But there is a problem.Â I hate the holiday season.Â I’ve always hated the holiday season.Â Â You can’t get any of your normal activities done with relative ease,Â and the mus-aack is way to cheery for [...]

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Dos and don’ts of work holiday parties

December 14, 2006

Our company’s annual holiday party is tonight.Â It’s my third party, but first as a mom, so I think the rules are a little bit different for me.Â Some dos and don’ts for moms at work holiday parties:
Do feel free to dance to the music; it’s a good chance to showÂ your coworkers that you’re still [...]

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Website Review: Babble.com

December 13, 2006

I’m not a website critic, but I thought readers of Interior OfficeÂ would be interested to knowÂ aboutÂ websites for parents that I find.Â Â So in that vein, I’ll review from my perspectiveÂ a newÂ off-beat parentingÂ webzine, Babble, thatÂ launched today.Â It’s from the creators of the webzine, Nerve, which I’ll admit I’d never heard of nor visited before today.Â
Anyway, Babble [...]

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The medicine of who?

December 12, 2006

My friend tipped me off to the next offenderÂ in a series of companies that sell to parents with unwise marketing-speak.Â The companyÂ is the maker of many allergy, flu and cold remedies – Triaminic.Â But this one is so blatantly obvious that I think it may take the cake of unwise marketing.Â Apparently, Triaminic seems to think [...]

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BlackBerry-itis: An Illness

December 11, 2006

After reading a recent article in The Wall Street Journal about kids who feel “orphaned” by their parents’ BlackBerries, I determined that I too, was putting my son at risk with my BlackBerry-ing behaviors.Â But I am not orphaning my son by using my BlackBerry.Â Rather, I believe I suffer from a case of BlackBerry-itis.Â [...]

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A new law of prohibition

December 10, 2006

Iâ€™m trying hard to keep the â€œmomâ€ talk out of a good girlâ€™s night out.Â
I donâ€™t want to be THAT mom who only talks about her kids.Â Itâ€™s like going out with people from work and only talking about the latest projects youâ€™re working on.Â Who wants to discuss the pros and cons of [...]

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Wall Street Journal takes on work and family balance

December 7, 2006

Check out The Juggle, a new blog by Wall Street Journal columnist Sara Schaefer Munoz.Â (I’m not 100%Â sold on the name, but it might grow on me.) “The Juggle” aims to discuss all the issues that pertain to the modern family- stress of finding the right caregiver, trying toÂ finish your neverending “to do” list,Â and managing [...]

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