Exactly seven minutes into her first morning of daycare, my daughter took a giant step. Well, it was actually a pretty small, shaky step, but the important thing is -- it was her very first step.

I know there are plenty of moms who would kill to watch their baby...

In celebration of National Infertility Awareness Week, here's a list of what not to say to someone going through fertility treatments.

"Why don't you just adopt?"

I may choose adoption down the line, but my desire to have a biological child is the same as any of the other 800...

What if there were an evil queen who sat on high in her castle, blogging away about the bodies of our favorite princesses?

...That flabby-finned Ariel could stand to swim away from the all-you-can-eat seaweed buffet!

...Is it just me, or does it look like Cinderella's been making pies outta...

Last night, millions of viewers bid farewell to one of television's most beloved characters of all time: Liz Lemon. For so many of us awkward, nerdy, trying-to-make-it-in-this-crazy-world gals, she was an icon. For me specifically, a struggling writer who posts here with the intent to tickle your Mommy...

I'm trying to hold on to everything, including the idea that holding on to everything is actually possible.

That sentence meant something very different to me when wrote it early last week. I'd been dealing with the mom-wrenching realization that if, for some unfathomable reason, I was no longer with...

The holidays are a special time to carry on time-honored family traditions of yore and, if you're a parent, they're a golden opportunity to create brand new ones that your kids will one day pass on to their own children. Or else... they're a time to think about a bunch...

Team Edward or Team Jacob. Team Obama or Team Romney. Life is full of choices, and today... I've never been so conflicted.

When news broke that Hostess will shut its cream-filled doors forever, I wasn't sure what to feel. On the one hand, I panicked. "O,...

Hey, Facebook Moms! I heard ya, loud and clear. It seems I left quite a few of us off the list of 10 Types of Moms on Facebook. Thanks to your responses, I added to it. Think we can get to one hundred?

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If you spend as much time on Facebook as I do, you've noticed a recent influx of proud moms posting kid pictures and updates about the new school year. While so much is brand new with the kiddos, I can't help but notice some patterns emerging with the moms. Here...

Legend has it that a naked runner named Coroebous of Elis won the sole event during the first-ever recorded Olympic Games in 776 BC. Things haven't changed too much, because last night, we -- the people of 2012 -- were treated to Jessie J in not one but two nude...

The news this morning is almost too heartbreaking to take in. A midnight audience full of excited moviegoers, all set to watch the summer's most anticipated blockbuster, tear gassed and massacred by 24-year-old James Holmes. At least 12 killed, at least 38 injured, and a 3-month-old...

Oscar-winning superscribe Aaron Sorkin's much-hyped show, The Newsroom, premiered on HBO last Sunday night to mixed reviews. Love it or hate it, there is no denying that parenting is a lot like being the executive producer of your own live news broadcast. Here are...

This morning, I put on my finest maternity pool cover up from last summer and took my 8-month-old to the farmers market.

It was a triumphant moment.

When my husband and I were trying to have a baby, going to the farmers market was one of the top...

Dear Jessica,

Let me be among the first to offer you my heartfelt congratulations -- you did it! Good grief. If it felt to all of us like you'd been pregnant since 2007, to you it must have felt like at least since Employee of the Month was released. Now...

Unless you've been living under a rock -- or you just chose to be swept up instead by Brad 'N Angie Engagement Fever -- you know that HBO's new show "Girls" premiered last night. Created, written and directed by 25-year-old-breakout phenom Lena Dunham, I probably don't...

I distinctly remember turning eight years old and being ecstatic that I was officially halfway to 16. Sixteen was the age of Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield, the "Sweet Valley High" twins. The matching gold lavalier-wearing twins. The red Fiat-driving twins. The double-loving, double-awesome twins.

Then I was 12 (halfway to...

It seems that lately I've changed from the "Every Stranger is a Friend You Haven't Met Yet" kind of person into a "Get Away from Me and My Baby; I Have Pepper Spray" kinda gal. My husband recently remarked, "It seems like overnight you became scared of everything."

Why yes,...

"Oh, come on...her... again?!"

With those words, the now three-time Oscar winner Meryl Streep sent the Twitterverse a-hashtaggin' this: #Humblebrag.

I'd never seen the word before. Apparently, I've been living under a rock, because the word itself has its own Twitter account. For those of you also...

When I was pregnant, the single best, most specific piece of advice I received was this:

"Go to the movies a lot now, because once you have a baby, paying a babysitter when you can rent the same thing at home in a few months isn't worth it."

I wish...

Last February, my husband I sat in a curtained-off waiting room while a stranger defrosted the frozen embryo that is now our 4-month-old daughter, Posey. Since we've become new parents, and especially because we are one of the millions of couples who've faced the heart-shattering issue of infertility, there is...