I’m currently hiding out in a Whole Foods. I’ve been here since 2:15. Escaped the house while the boy was napping and the nanny in effect. Grocery shopping is so astonishingly relaxing for me. Some days, when Jonah is fussy,…
Author: calm mama
sick sick sick
We’ve been sick for going on three weeks now. Jonah decided that the symptoms he’d been having weren’t fun enough, so on Sunday he picked up a virus that makes his throat all red and scratchy and spikes him a…
rumors of his weaning have been greatly exaggerated
As is the way of the Internet gods, as soon as one blogs something, it turns a corner, flips a U-ey, slams into reverse. …eh, it’s not that bad. I hadn’t been super enthusiastic about him weaning. I liked the…
bump band giveaway
When I was a wee pregnant woman, and this blog was still fairly new, or rather, less old than it is now, I participated in a bloggy giveaways carnival. My readership spiked for a few days as people vied for…
the 200th word
Okay, so I don’t really know which one was the 200th word because I was having too much fun using the sort feature to alphabetize the list, eliminate duplicates. Sometime in the last few days, Jonah said his two-hundreth word.…
jonah’s experience of the inauguration
I turn on the TV to set the Tivo to record (since I won’t let him watch TV). He immediately pulls himself up against the TV stand and looks up at the giant screen, at the crowds. Hiiiii! He says.…
a beautiful day
When we clean up for company, it’s as if the house perks up, like a dog that knows it’s been good and is waiting for a pat on the head. Kelly brought these fancy doughnuts from a shop in San…
words words words (and more words)
He says: clothes, shirt, pants, knee clap, lap open, closed, knock zebra hair (and the phrase: “brush hair”) me, Jonah (these two words together, while pointing to himself) and tonight, while I was nursing him, and someone called, which one…