About this Burbia Blogger
- added on 06/06/2008
Jacqueline Burt
Jacqueline Burt is a freelance journalist living in Connecticut who frequently contributes to the New York Post, Parents, and other publications. She is currently working on a memoir.
Blogs by Jacqueline Burt
Lately I've been feeling like a double agent, or even a superhero, juggling two separate identities. On the weekdays, I'm Suburban Single Mom: hostess of playdates, laundress of popsicle-stained t-shirts, up with the sun and in my pajamas way before Letterman. On the weekends - when my kids are with their father - I'm another creature entirely: guzzler of margaritas, the biggest flirt of the party, out of bed only after most of the morning has passed and in my pajamas...well, hopefully not at all. ...read more.
Back when I still lived in the city, my fellow displaced urbanite mom friends and I used to fantasize, sometimes, about how lovely it would be to have our families -- the parents and siblings we'd left behind in the burbs -- close by. If Grandma lived on the other end of town, instead of on the other side of the country, it would be like having an on-call babysitter (we imagined). ...read more.
Cocoa Pebbles. Sierra Mist. Eggo Waffles with Aunt Jemima syrup. None of these products were a part of my children's food vocabulary before I started dating my current boyfriend; likewise, before I came along, his kids were blissfully unaware of such grocery list items as Barbara's Organic Shredded Oat cereal, ...read more.
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