I think about money a lot more now that I work outside the home. Time is money and I don’t think I am being paid properly for my time. Then again, I felt the same way when I earned three times as much.
Today, while on my coffee break at work, I saw a picture of a pen that cost 12,000 Pounds Sterling (not exactly as pictured, but a $250 pen and a $25,000 pen look alike to me). That is about $25,000 US.
Now, there are three ways to look at a picture of a $25,000-pen.

Motherhood, especially the postpartum period, is not glamourous. I’ve been known to mention it when celebrities like Angelina Jolie or Britney Spears give birth, to increase the style quotient of this blog. By the way girls, I hope you’re both recovering from those c-sections and that the scar doesn’t show.
But, to tell you the truth, I also do it to bring more traffic to the site. And, with any luck, the information those visitors get will eventually help a new mother who deserves some comfort.
My strategy, though, has been deeply flawed. Jolie, Spears, even the Gilmore Girls, are just …read more

If everything has gone as planned, today is August 19th and the kids and I are flying home after 6 weeks in Bulgaria. I pre-wrote all the posts you’ve read over the past twenty-one days in early July and, after 3 weeks without Internet access, I am sure that I can’t wait to get home, moderate the comments and check the statistics to see how many of you have been reading Babylune while I’ve been away.
Regular life and regular postings start again tomorrow, but in case you missed any of my special vacation features, here’s a round up under the …read more

Well, I’ve said it before and I will say it again.
The most wonderful thing that will ever come out of your body is a baby. Milk is the second best thing. After that, it’s just the same old you know what.
And that, my friends, is as true for you as it is for celebrity mothers like Britney Spears and Angelina Jolie.
Now, forget about the paparazzi-hounded for a while and pay attention to me instead.
According to the search engine results, I am the only postpartum blogger who actually writes about the more embarassing side-effects (or is that end-effects?) of giving birth.
So, …read more

New mothers are made every day (Hi Kris! Hi new baby Bodhi!). So, once a month or so I like to give the women who are just discovering Babylune an overview of what’s here.
If you’re in the middle of one of the many fantastic post partum mysteries of the human body, click on The Long List of Discomforts. Within the posts are links to posts that deal with common problems in the first days after giving birth.
You can also go to The First Six Weeks Category Archive to get an overview of what to expect in the first phase of …read more