by Monica Wiant | Feb 7, 2012 | Uncategorized
1. I am good at losing weight. I’ve had at least a dozen successful weight loss efforts in the last 20 years. The trouble is, I am equally successful – perhaps more so – at gaining weight and have done it exactly as many times. At least I’m...
by Monica Wiant | Dec 24, 2011 | Uncategorized
10 years ago this week, my dad, Peter Czernek, lost his life to cancer. He was 59 years old, and I was 23.Circa 1971. My parents were awesome.The advice that parents dispense to teenagers and young adults often seems like wasted breath. After all, young people already...
by Monica Wiant | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
We recently returned from our first road trip as a family of four.Really, it was two trips in one. Part one was a weekend with friends in the Black Hills. 6 families, 24 people, 13 kids aged 4 and under, all in one house. It was happy, beautiful chaos.We went to Mount...
by Monica Wiant | Aug 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
This is Super Goonie.He belongs to a group of my friends who call ourselves The Goonies. We met on the Internet, most of us through a birth board for mothers with due dates in March 2007. Back then, we were a diverse and hormonal group of expectant and new mothers...
by Monica Wiant | May 23, 2011 | Uncategorized
I haven’t blogged much recently. I can blame the demands of working, caring for two kids, trying to get into shape, playing Facebook games, and whatever other endeavors swallow my time and attention – but the truth is, there’s something else, too....
by Monica Wiant | Mar 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
Today is Evie’s fourth birthday. Based on my limited knowledge of human brain development, this is the first birthday she has any real chance of remembering. Even if she does take something away from this, for the rest of her life, it will probably be a glimmer...
