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Not your typical gay, Jewish mom-in-the-suburbs blog. I aim to entertain even if that means the joke is on me. And sometimes I make people blush a little.
Recent Posts Tagged With 'my lady-friend'
Lesmorphication
As children, my sister and I would often confound friends and family who could not tell who was on the other end of the phone when they called. We inevitably had to tell the caller which sister was speaking. Apparently, we sounded exactly alike. ...
Better luck next time
Fooey! The FreezeFoe failed. Fank you…I mean thank you to all who voted – especially those who thought it was a stupid idea but you wanted to help me out without having to fork over any cash. I appreciate it. Before I give up hope entirely an...
Cucinare e amare
We’re honeymooning in the Hamptons, dahling, and life here doesn’t suck. After a couple days in New Jersey recuperating from the 11 hour drive home from Southampton, Ontario and catching up on laundry, we loaded up the car once again for a weeke...
Like Butter
Friday night. Sitter booked. Tickets purchased. We were going to see the comedian July Gold in the city. A friend of Gabriella’s whose husband’s sister’s friend who knows...I don’t know. I lost track. But somehow, there was a very dista...
Art By The Ferry
After 15 years, I’ve finally let Gabriella off the hook. Every year, Gabriella asks me, “What do you want for your birthday, honey?” And every year I answer, “Nothing, sweetheart. Just get me a card. Write something from your heart, and t...
One fine day
Reading some of the comments on the entry where I announce that we are just about to redirect our mail to a lovely bridge I found in Newark, I realized that I may have sounded a wee bit sad. I admit that there is a little bit of that Lilliputian, Gl...
Change of address
Last week was Disco Week on American Idol, a.k.a. The Adam Lambert Show. Well, Gabriella was in heaven. No, not because of Adam Lambert though we are both fans. The girl cannot resist singing along to music of yesteryear, and she particularly enjoy...
Mommies dearest
Perhaps Gabriella is NOT the Mary Poppins stay-at-home mother I’d thought she’d be. There have been a few happy lessons that have come from Gabriella’s unemployment. This is one of them. Not that I want her to do a bad job. She’s actually ...
I wore white...SO?
March 3 - our anniversary. Which anniversary is that, Deborah? You can’t legally get married, so what in tarnation are you on about? Hey. It’s fun to say taaar-nation. Try it. I can’t help but say it with my bastardized, southern accent. ...
A happy mistake
I was having a conversation with a friend recently whose daughter is in the same pre-school as Asher. We were talking about how parents hold kids back in school so that they will be ahead of the game in their classes. In our school district, Octobe...
Why Gabriella needs to get a job
Gabriella: Deborah!! Can you come in here and hand me a new roll of toilet paper?Deborah: Are you stuck in the lav without toilet paper?!? I should make you get it yourself for all the times you have left me with 2 squares of toilet paper left of...
No Parking for U-Hauls
Lesbian bed death. It’s what we ladies looking for love fear when coupling with a lady friend. We start hot and heavy and then the roar of the fire dies down to a low flame and then eventually the embers cool until nothing is left but ash. Fire ...
White House Press Secretaries have it easy
Asher has never been an inquisitive child. He’s never asked why the sky is blue or where milk comes from or why poop is brown. He’s never been that kid who follows every answer with “why? ” until you run out of answers – or patience - a...
Are you still here?
It’s happening. Gabriella is officially getting on my nerves. I think we did pretty well considering she’s been unemployed for 47 days...but who’s counting? Having the two of us home full-time seems like the ideal set up. It’s true that t...
Spooners and spoonees
Are you a couple that spoons? Who spoons whom in your relationship or are there no spoon roles? Does the answer lie solely in biology? Is the outside spooner the taller or the larger of the two of you or are there other considerations to be made? ...
Asher got run over by a table
The coffee table attacked Asher. He is running around the house-without slippers, and the coffee table gets in the way of his accidental slide into its corner. All I hear is the screaming, and I run to meet him underneath the table. Parents will ...
Happy Birthday, Gabriella
Happy Birthday, Gabriella! My lovely um, partner in civil union? Domestic partner? Wife? Life partner? Special friend? Soul mate? Ack-I’m gagging on that phrase--call me romantic. Well, the good news is that we don’t need a label to know ...
Celebrate not tolerate
What to do now that my partner is unemployed and home all day. Every day. Sleep late? Go to the gym? Get my nails done? Get busy with my lady friend in the middle of the day? Nope though that last one would be particularly nice. None of the a...
It's all good
I’d like to personally thank Gabriella’s company for laying her off. She still has some papers to sign-something about promising not to litigate, blah blah blah, so I think it’s best if I don’t refer to the company by its actual name. Goin...
G-Watch Y2K
Yesterday, Peaches & Coconuts enjoyed the highest amount of traffic to date. It could be that word of my delightfully entertaining prose has spread across cyberspace. Or it could be that, as mentioned previously, the dire state of camel toe is reac...
From bankers to broadway
I was half-way through the follow up entry to the Prop 8: The Musical when our lives took a bit of a detour. I was going to talk about the demise of Broadway given that it was Marc Shaiman, Hairspray’s composer, who wrote Prop 8: The Musical and ...
