Posts By: MJ Pullen
M.J. Pullen is a distracted writer and the mom of two boys in Roswell, Georgia, where she is absolutely late for something important right now. Her books include quirky romantic comedies and playful women's fiction. She blogs erratically with writing advice, random observations, and reflections on raising very loud kids and dogs. Join her Distracted Readers newsletter list for updates, free content, giveaways and more.
So I was in the kitchen yesterday and I heard MDH in the living room, entertaining the baby. In the middle of a stream of coos and squeals, I overheard this: “We like blankets. And that is a blanket statement.”
Infancy, especially early infancy, is chock full of milestones. It seems that every week that passes brings some new fascinating behavior or endearing social interaction with our “new roommate.” For the past sixteen weeks, I’ve enjoyed so much watching and learning as our little guy teaches me all about babyhood, personhood, with each tiny new […]
Yesterday, about halfway through my morning walk (just when turning around and going back would do me no good), it started to rain. At first I was a little freaked out by this, since I was pushing my little guy in the stroller in front of me — I had visions of a wet and […]
Yesterday was one of those days. My little man was so exhausted that he couldn’t sleep — and it was driving us both crazy. I tried everything – his crib, the pack-n-play, the swing, the bouncer… every contraption known to man designed to make babies comfortable and sleepy. I tried a ride in the car […]
Yesterday, MDH and I went to lunch at what I would like to call a “Suburbistro” [This is a new term I’m officially coining — you heard it here first! It refers to all those chain restaurants that crop up near strip malls and try way too hard to be quaint, but are really just […]
A childhood friend of mine, Kenneth, was in a terrible accident several years ago — he slipped while rappelling off a bridge with a bunch of friends, and fell some 80 feet to the ground. He broke lots of important bones and was confined to a wheelchair for several months… All in all, he was […]
My little guy is almost 2 months old now, growing like a weed, and – lately – smiling and laughing. The “social smile,” as it is called in developmental terms, is just about the best thing ever. Better than chocolate, ice cream, or sex. Or even sex in chocolate ice cream!! Just when I was […]
Years ago, when I lived in Portland, Oregon, one of my favorite weekend activities was to stroll through the Saturday Market — a lively collection of artists’ booths, street performers and food vendors downtown by the Willamette River. I’d get a chai tea or some greasy ethnic food from one of the booths and then […]
It seems that every time I take a hiatus from blogging, I feel the need to explain why in my return entry (we can talk about the uselessness of that later). This time is no different, but those who know me personally can guess — it’s the arrival of my precious little boy, just over […]
So there are just under two weeks left until the official due date for our first child, which I have learned is a fairly arbitrary date determined by a German guy in the late 1800’s who decided that a pregnancy should be “10 moon months.” So, according to the obstetric wisdom that follows, sometime between […]
