I was a Cosmo Girl ...

It is 10:00 PM and I shut off the TV ... get my jammies on, brush my teeth and jump into bed ... grab my latest magazine and it hits me ... I was a Cosmo girl! 

Cosmopolitan magazine was what I took to bed in the early days ... now it's Today's Parent!

Dating advice, high style, sex tips and 'are you wearing the right blush?' in the past were my biggest issues?! 

Now potty training, 'no more meltdowns', the latest in cupcakes and butt paste are my leisure reading choices. 

In between Cosmo and Today's Parent ... Bride's R Us, Scrapbooking for Dummies, Cooking for Complete Idiots, and my fav with a really long title ... 'If you stopped reading this magazine and got on the treadmill instead ... you wouldn't be fat!' ... and of course, Oprah , pregnancy, Time and whatn was I thinking Yoga Today.    Each marking a milestone ...

I remember when I got engaged ... one of the times ... LOL ... that I traded in 'Just OK' sex for night after night of peering through wedding magazines ... the dress, the flowers, the decor, the cake ... and then it hit me ... (when I found him on the couch in the morning, because he couldn't get into bed because of all the wedding magazines on his bedside) I wanted a party, I didn't want a marriage!  I called it off ...

No more Supermodels or Talk Show Queens grace the covers of my magazines ... now it is coiffed children in the latest Gymboree ensemble eating perfect cookies ... (but it does make me feel better knowing from my model booking agent days that those kids probably had a fit .... didn't like the clothes they had to wear, the shoes were too tight, they were hot and grumpy, mad they couldn't actually 'eat' the cookies and didn't care if they were on the cover of a magazine).  There ... I can be grumpy too!

I am happy to cuddle up with my parenting magazines ... don't get me wrong ... just realized how I can see my life's journey in the grocery check-out!  Yaddayaddayaddablahblahblah ...