Lailah

Wife. Mother. Friend. Sister. Daughter. Crazy Person. Just a few words to describe me today. Tomorrow the words may be different but the sentiment will be the same - I am a woman who wears lots of different hats and loves lots of different people in my life. By day, I am a lawyer simply trying to do a little good in the world. By night, I am a wife trying to love her husband, a mom trying to do as minimal damage to her children as possible, and a TV junkie trying to pretend I don't have an addiction.

BLACK FRIDAY. I don’t know why I do it. I spend 364 days a year trying to get as much sleep as possible. With a spunky two year old and an extra cuddly infant, those hours are few and far between. So why, oh why, do I choose each year to rob myself of those …

It stares at me. From beneath my desk at work, the non-descript bag stares at me. Inside sits my best and worst friend. That torture device that we like to call a breast pump. It really is thoughtful of the breast pump people to make those nondescript bags, the ones that everyone knows is a …

On the outside, he’s not a lot to look at. He has no graphics, no pretty embellishments. Eight years after our first introduction, I can honestly say that Craig looks exactly the same, down to the blue font that I can only assume is Arial or some other equally non-descript sans serif type. (To be …

I love a spa day. Give me a steam room and some lavender oil and I’m a happy lady. (Throw in a glass of wine and we are really in business!) However, at this stage in life, I have neither the time or the energy to actually make it to the spa. I do have …

If every meal I made could be on the cover of Bon Appétit, I would. I love food. I love making delicious food. Some days delicious means gourmet, other days, delicious means a greasy cheeseburger. And then there are days where I want something in between. There’s rarely ever enough time in the day to …