Not much to report. Been waiting for the boy’s head to get bigger. So I, too, can have one of those big-headed babies. I’m tired. Suddenly realized this tiredness is not going to go away for, like, years. The boy…
Category: just me
some people just don’t get it
I’ve crossed over to the other side. I used to be one of those people. Blissfully ignorant. Perhaps even a little disdainful. Of what it is to be a parent. Of what it takes to negotiate the world while also…
cat, knitting, bones, continued (worry optional)
One reason I haven’t posted in the last day-and-a-half: You may remember where this sweater was a while back: I’d finished the hood before the boy arrived, but sleeves and button placket seemed an utter impossibility. Between the sheer effort…
i heart date night
We did it. We had our first real date night since baby was born. It took some work, some tenacity, to get there. My parents arrived on Thursday. I began the training then. Started them on diapering and in true…
i surrender
I surrender to spending whole days in bed with an infant attached to my boob while I circle the TV channel spectrum on my remote. I surrender to reruns of TV shows I never wanted to watch in the first…
arsenic hour
Apparently this is a known phenomenon. The early evening hour — that time when parents are just getting home, kids are melting down, and you’d like to either take arsenic or dispense it. Ha. Ha. I melt down like clockwork…
floods and mud in washington state
When I was young, we lived in “the canyon” in Los Angeles. Two winters of my childhood brought rains so heavy that our street turned into a thick caramel mud river and carried cars away. The ivy-covered hill that was…
the ups and downs
After a lovely evening practicing hypnosis techniques with my honey, I can hardly remember the hysteria of earlier in the day. I know that I got all wound up on the way to Pilates this morning. As I was driving…