Remember how Dane went out of town for a week? Remember how all the appliances fell apart while he was gone? Want to read about how I almost fell apart even before any of the appliances? Awesome. Because my new column’s up at mamazine.com today, and that’s what it’s all about.

(Did that last line read like the hokey pokey to anybody else? …and you turn yourself around… that’s what it’s all about, yeah!) (Wow, I have not played the hokey pokey since the last time I went roller skating. Which, um, has been a few years.) At any rate! Please check it out. And then tell me your stories about being the only parent holding down the fort. Won’t you? You can leave comments here or there, or anywhere! Well, maybe not anywhere, but definitely here. Or there.