http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/ With wit and candor, Lena's blog delves into the challenges she encounters while trying to grow a business and a family. Come for the whining. Stay for the cookies. en-US Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:50:15 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/12/so-this-is-good.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/12/so-this-is-good.html As you have all probably heard by now, Club Mom is shutting down its blogs. Honestly, this is very good timing for me personally. My plate is overflowing with responsibility and posting here was starting to become nearly impossible. As my infrequency in said posting can attest to. It feels... Lena Sat, 08 Dec 2007 20:50:15 -0500 http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/11/now-for-my-next.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/11/now-for-my-next.html Well. Well. Well. How VERY interesting. It appears that you have children from the ages of... (DRUM ROLL PLEASE) two weeks to eighteen years old! How very...broad of you, Internet. Despite my efforts to be useful and applicable in my writing and all market research-y I have basically learned that... Parenting Terrifies Me Lena Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:53 -0500 http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/11/ill-ask-the-que.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/11/ill-ask-the-que.html Can you all just be as helpful as kittens and answer this wee question: How old are your kids? How rude of me not to ask sooner! My very efficient assistant shall collect your answers and get riiiiight back to you. My Kid Is Cuter Than Your Kid Lena Tue, 06 Nov 2007 20:27:27 -0500 http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/11/also-i-would-ha.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/11/also-i-would-ha.html So, did everyone have a chance to get their comments in? Hmm? Everyone? (See, how I cleverly pretended I was waiting on you when in actuality you've been waiting on me? I know. How sneaky. Do you ever do that to your husband? Come downstairs where he's been passing the... Parenting Terrifies Me Lena Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:37:22 -0500 http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/every-week-ill-.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/every-week-ill-.html I started to write about the fires here at Club Mom, but realized that is a subject better suited for my personal blog, so if you would like to know how I'm doing feel free to take a jaunt over yonder. Obviously, I still have hands. I know posting has... Parenting Terrifies Me Lena Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:40:47 -0400 http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/i-like-it-when-.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/i-like-it-when-.html So. Hi. I've been reading your comments as they come in on the last post and selfishly let it go another day because I so love all of your opinions. I find myself nodding going "Yep. Exactly" to almost all of them. You see the problem, don't you? I can... Parenting Terrifies Me Lena Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:51:12 -0400 http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/heres-a-questio.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/heres-a-questio.html Do you have your #2 pencil in hand? Here is your word problem: A mom you know is having a party for her 6 year old. She is only inviting 15 kids. So, she covertly hands out invites in the school parking lot. And in that invitation is an accompanying... Parenting Terrifies Me Lena Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:01:00 -0400 http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/baby-showers.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/baby-showers.html For those of you late to the party, I started to plan my pregnancy when I was about 12-ish years old. Does this terrify me since me own daughter is halfway to twelve? Um, YESITDOESTHANKYOUVERYMUCH. (I even remember when a distant acquaintance of my family's found out that their thirteen-year-old... Parenting Terrifies Me Lena Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:33:17 -0400 http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/short-list-of-t.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/short-list-of-t.html 1. Watching "The Bridges of Madison County" too close to your period. 2. The same month your only child starts Kindergarten. 3. While infertile. 4. And drinking a 2006 Trader Joe's Shiraz. One quote stopped me dead in my Ruffle-dipping tracks. Meryl Streep's character says, very haltingly: "Having children in... Marital Bliss Parenting Terrifies Me Lena Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:39:35 -0400 http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/the-unthinkable.html http://cheekylotus.clubmom.com/cheeky_lotus/2007/10/the-unthinkable.html Yes, I put up this post the other day and then promptly took it down. Not because I doubted my reaction in my story, but because in the interest of brevity, I didn't describe all of the details involved in the situation. And when it comes to a subject of... Parenting Terrifies Me Lena Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:07:56 -0400