More About Moi
Okay, right about now I know you are probably expecting to find out how I fared after the big pack-up with the actual delivery and installation of my new college freshman. But I also understand that you might be asking yourself: "Who exactly is this Laurie Yarnell anyway and why should I read her blog?" You could click on the "About Me" link above my photo to get some more info, but lots of people (i.e. my sister) are saying that they didn't know they were supposed to do that and neither will anyone else. So let me make it easy for you here and tell you some More About Moi.
If it takes a village – with or without the “i” – to raise a single child, then trust me here when I tell you that it takes a veritable planet to minister to the needs of my uber-fussy suburban New York family. That family includes an annoyingly thin yet Double Stuff Oreo-addicted husband, two often exasperating but usually entertaining offspring (my new college freshman son, plus a daughter who will disown me if I say anything else about her here), and two more (much nicer-to-me) kids of the canine variety. Rounding out my family unit are five assorted ultra-fragile salt water fish, one whose poisonous sting recently sent my should-have-known-better-than-to-stick-his-hand-into-the-tank spouse by ambulance to a regional toxin control ER (don’t ask).
When not pursuing a hard-hitting investigative journalism career for an upscale lifestyle magazine (Where can one snag Dior at discount? How best to Botox?), I can usually be found literally embedded at home, propped up in bed with my laptop on my knees and tapping away about my life.
WARNING FROM iVILLAGE: Laurie Yarnell does not now – nor has she ever –owned a mini-van. And her kids played soccer for about a minute-and-a-half. But she is funny, interesting, engaging, thought-provoking, and above all, charmingly modest.
Okay, so that's all about me. I promise to bring you up-to-date on the big college move-in in my next post. Stay tuned.
Comments
Bet you deny shopping at the local discount "i really need a 10-gallon jar of peanut butter and thousand-roll pack of TP" warehouse store, too ;)
how refreshing! I am so sick of articles written by young, thin, new mommy types. Let's write about our teenagers, love it!
