she’s here. But she is also saying that she wants all the girls to have their turns first!”
Everyone started laughing, including me, but I was getting shivers too. I’m having goose bumps just telling you about it now—because that’s something that my mom always used to say! She always had this thing about making sure that everyone got their turn and no one was excluded. My sister Kathy told this story of when she was a kid and some boys and girls were in her room playing spin the bottle. My mom walked in and saw a plain-Jane type of girl just sitting there in the circle and immediately said, “Now, is everyone getting their turn? How about you, sweetheart?” Here Kathy thought they’d be in trouble for playing spin the bottle, but my mom was only concerned that “plain Jane” would be left out by the boys.
So you see why I was freaked out, but also pleased, and kind of excited. My mom was there with us that night in my dining room, watching out for all her girls. Just like always.
----
When she gave me her ring, she told me to change the setting, because she’d never been wild about it. So I took it to Loree Rodkin, a well-known jewelry designer in L.A., and asked for something simple. I have small hands so I didn’t want it to be crazy big. It already made my own wedding ring look like a toe ring when it I wore it on the other hand. I would joke and put my wedding ring on my toe and show my husband. “You like my toe ring?” Ha-ha!
Plus I didn’t want it to cost a fortune. So I asked for simple, but simple was not what I got! Mauricio picked it up from Loree and called me and said, “I can’t believe this. I feel like I’m carrying a Lamborghini in a box.” If you haven’t seen it, it’s quite big, antique or maybe gothic style, with swords on the side and cognac diamonds mixed in with the regular diamonds. I have it on my right hand in the cover photo. It looks like it would be clunky, but it’s so smooth on the inside. It’s perfect! I wear it all the time, every single day.
People have asked me, “Don’t you worry walking around with that? Aren’t you afraid someone will try to take it?”
“I dare anyone to try to get this off my finger!” I tell them. “I will take them out, believe me! This is not coming off my finger unless you take my whole arm!” Ha-ha!
Hmm. That sounds like something my mother might have said!
CHAPTER 6
Mom in the House
Of all the questions I’m asked, this one is my favorite: How do you juggle a baby and the kids and the show and everything else in your life?
The reason I like that question so much is that it means people see me as a real mom, completely involved in raising my kids. Because I am! I’ve never had a nanny. And that, my friends, is highly unusual where I live.
Being a good mother is the most important thing in the world to me. I’m a hands-on mom—like most moms outside the rarified world I live in—and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Moms everywhere are juggling and struggling to do the very best they can for their kids. I’d love to tell you how I do it.
A lot of people have said to me, “Oh, your kids—how did they turn out so nice?” I believe you get out of kids what you put into them.
I always wanted a traditional upbringing for my children, and that’s why they’re not actors. They don’t want to be actors. No, I want a family sitting down together at dinner every night. Well, almost every night. Mauricio and I get a lot of invitations, but we have a rule: we have to be home more nights than we’re out. So in a crazy-busy week that would be three nights out, tops. I believe children need their parents’ presence.
Here in Beverly Hills, a lot of women let nannies raise the children and the drivers take the kids everywhere. There’s too much of that, and it’s very sad to me. Even outside of Beverly Hills, I’ve noticed some moms make their social life a priority and leave their kids with babysitters or their
Everyone started laughing, including me, but I was getting shivers too. I’m having goose bumps just telling you about it now—because that’s something that my mom always used to say! She always had this thing about making sure that everyone got their turn and no one was excluded. My sister Kathy told this story of when she was a kid and some boys and girls were in her room playing spin the bottle. My mom walked in and saw a plain-Jane type of girl just sitting there in the circle and immediately said, “Now, is everyone getting their turn? How about you, sweetheart?” Here Kathy thought they’d be in trouble for playing spin the bottle, but my mom was only concerned that “plain Jane” would be left out by the boys.
So you see why I was freaked out, but also pleased, and kind of excited. My mom was there with us that night in my dining room, watching out for all her girls. Just like always.
----
When she gave me her ring, she told me to change the setting, because she’d never been wild about it. So I took it to Loree Rodkin, a well-known jewelry designer in L.A., and asked for something simple. I have small hands so I didn’t want it to be crazy big. It already made my own wedding ring look like a toe ring when it I wore it on the other hand. I would joke and put my wedding ring on my toe and show my husband. “You like my toe ring?” Ha-ha!
Plus I didn’t want it to cost a fortune. So I asked for simple, but simple was not what I got! Mauricio picked it up from Loree and called me and said, “I can’t believe this. I feel like I’m carrying a Lamborghini in a box.” If you haven’t seen it, it’s quite big, antique or maybe gothic style, with swords on the side and cognac diamonds mixed in with the regular diamonds. I have it on my right hand in the cover photo. It looks like it would be clunky, but it’s so smooth on the inside. It’s perfect! I wear it all the time, every single day.
People have asked me, “Don’t you worry walking around with that? Aren’t you afraid someone will try to take it?”
“I dare anyone to try to get this off my finger!” I tell them. “I will take them out, believe me! This is not coming off my finger unless you take my whole arm!” Ha-ha!
Hmm. That sounds like something my mother might have said!
CHAPTER 6
Mom in the House
Of all the questions I’m asked, this one is my favorite: How do you juggle a baby and the kids and the show and everything else in your life?
The reason I like that question so much is that it means people see me as a real mom, completely involved in raising my kids. Because I am! I’ve never had a nanny. And that, my friends, is highly unusual where I live.
Being a good mother is the most important thing in the world to me. I’m a hands-on mom—like most moms outside the rarified world I live in—and I wouldn’t have it any other way. Moms everywhere are juggling and struggling to do the very best they can for their kids. I’d love to tell you how I do it.
A lot of people have said to me, “Oh, your kids—how did they turn out so nice?” I believe you get out of kids what you put into them.
I always wanted a traditional upbringing for my children, and that’s why they’re not actors. They don’t want to be actors. No, I want a family sitting down together at dinner every night. Well, almost every night. Mauricio and I get a lot of invitations, but we have a rule: we have to be home more nights than we’re out. So in a crazy-busy week that would be three nights out, tops. I believe children need their parents’ presence.
Here in Beverly Hills, a lot of women let nannies raise the children and the drivers take the kids everywhere. There’s too much of that, and it’s very sad to me. Even outside of Beverly Hills, I’ve noticed some moms make their social life a priority and leave their kids with babysitters or their
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