By Evie Peck Have you ever run into someone you used to know and they aren’t nice to you? My friend Marie just told me that happened to her. She ran into someone she had known for a period of time who pretended she didn’t remember her and at first I was like, “Ugh, what […]
By: Evie Peck The other day we went to gym class. I LOVE our gym class and more importantly, so does Spenser. During some structured (yet unstructured) play with blocks, a more aggressive boy kicked Spenser after S knocked down his tower. Spenser’s favorite thing to do… knock down stuff. ANY stuff! I’d told him not to […]
By: Evie Peck I was at my friend Kelly’s party; mostly moms and kids. I didn’t really know anyone there. Spenser was the youngest kid by far so I watched him as he played happily by himself. Kelly introduced me to some of the moms and at one point told them, “Evie has a great blog.” […]
By: Evie Peck My car is 12 years old this month. Happy Birthday, old car. You’ve been quite reliable and loyal… but now that I’m in my 40’s and a mom AND most of my friends have fairly new and much nicer cars and everywhere I go, every class I take with Spenser I notice […]
By Evie Peck We went to music class today. I LOVE Spenser’s music class! The kids play drums and bang sticks and dance while the teacher sings and another musician plays guitar… it’s a mini concert every week. Today, there were a few new faces. One 2 1/2 year old kid and his mother or maybe […]
By Evie Peck When I was about 29, my best friend from high school, Tia, set me up on a date with Bradley, a guy from her husband’s work. Tia was obsessed (as only a best friend can be) with the fact that I wasn’t close to finding a husband and starting a family. She […]
By Evie Peck It was an overcast morning. “Wanna go to the park?” I asked, when I saw that my 19-month-old son Spenser had pulled everything out of his kitchen cabinet (all the stuff that is child safe like my Gladware, boxes of jello, bags of pasta etc.). “Yeah!” he said, but he would have said that […]
By Evie Peck When I was 9 months pregnant, I walked into a major chain baby store and I saw something I really wanted: a BABY BOOK – the kind where you write down everything that happens- first bath, first smile, first solid poop… It had a hard cover, thick pages and places to […]
By Evie Peck I know it sounds crazy, but once I got up at 5am to bake cookies for my new fertility doctor. He was supposed to be the best in town and I guess I was over compensating, because I was nervous about being a single woman trying to get pregnant… and… our first […]
By Evie Peck The woman at the counter handed me two nametags. “One for your husband,” she said. “No husband,” I said, pushing the extra nametag back. At the age of forty, I decided to have a baby, even though I was not in a relationship. My best friend of twenty years was my sperm […]