I love being a mom–it’s absolutely one of the best things in my life. I have four, with age ranges from 14 and 2 years-old. My kids are hilarious, and so happy and optimistic about life and that makes me look at my own life anew. However there is a flipside: They are a lot of work. It’s impossible to be lazy if you’re going to do this whole parent thing well enough so that your kids won’t need a psychiatrist in adulthood. Gosh. I wish someone would have told me a few things about having kids before I started popping them out, such as…

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This past week I celebrated my 32nd birthday, as you can see I’m not one to hide my age. Needless to say I had an amazing day filled with love and well wishes from family and friends. Amongst the birthday shout outs and wishes I found it interesting that after almost every “Happy Birthday” an inquiry on the state of my union followed. Half of my well wishers wanted to know when I was going to finally get married and have a baby because I was indeed “getting old”.

Although I’m pretty much used to being asked these questions after receiving them ever since I turned 29, I’m still amazed on how people seem to automatically assume they know exactly what you want in life, especially when it comes to YOUR relationship and future. Since there seems to be no rules or etiquette book on what not to say to a single woman I’ve taken the liberty of spreading the word on the top five..



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