Joni Edelman

Don’t most kids feel afraid to come home?

If you're brave enough to take the DIY Brazilian plunge, these tips are a must-read. As in, tip #6: It hurts, but not more than having a baby. Good to know.

By baby three, well let’s just say things are a little anticlimactic, at least where furnishings are concerned. Hand me down crib. Check.

And what’s better than eggs? Eggs direct from the cloaca of your own chicken.

As the mother of three teens, I'm here to tell you: You have nothing to freak out about.

My cocktail is wrong. It’s a gin and tonic with only gin. It’s a martini with 10 olives. And I can’t stand the sun. Not today. Not this month.

You can work your butt off and still be left with a tummy. Bummer.

What to really expect when you're expecting.

Our relationship has been a little complicated. I've loved you a lot, and I've loathed you at least that much, but mostly you've just gone unnoticed. Except for those 5 to 7 days every four weeks when you made your presence quite evident, what with the river of life blood and the random excruciating, and from what I can tell, unnecessary, contractions.

I’m lucky to be smart, to have an astonishingly good memory. Or maybe I’m lucky to be bipolar.