On the 12th, W and I celebrated our seventh wedding anniversary. During those seven years, we have: bought a house renovated said house gotten a dog had a baby sold house bought another house had another baby lost both maternal grandmothers switched jobs traveled far and near eaten, laughed, and cried together Can’t wait to [...]
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It’s Been a Wild Ride
Posted in family, life on October 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Name Change
Posted in family on October 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I did not change my name when we got married. It seemed like an unnecessary hassle, and I would be going from an easy to spell and to say name to one that always has to be spelled for people and is always mispronounced. I’ve been thinking lately though about changing it. Now with the [...]
One Day and Counting…Liquid Gold
Posted in family, work on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The stash of liquid gold. Twenty-five bags of buffer between me and my child’s starvation as I go back to work on Monday. A bit melodramatic, I know. FH is not going to starve, but anyone who has worked and breastfeed exclusively knows how important it is to have reserves. There will be days that [...]
Terrible Dream
Posted in dream, family on September 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
See this cute little dog? She was the central character in my terrible dream last night. I dreamt that our family was on vacation in Kansas. We were walking along and came to the crest of a hill. Looking down, we saw a small pond with some ducks in it. The pond wasn’t really picturesque; [...]
Preschool
Posted in family, school on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
With LM’s fall birthday, he will not start kindergarten until he is almost six. He, therefore, has the next two years of preschool. He is going one day a week for half a day this year, and we hope to increase that next year. I also wanted to do a bit more at home with [...]
Good Baby Question
Posted in family, randomness on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Someone the other day asked me if FH was a good baby. Is there such a thing as a bad baby? He cries when he is tired, when he has belly pains, when he is hungry, when he wants to be held. This seems reasonable to me. No, he does not sleep particularly well at [...]
Six Days and Counting
Posted in family, finances, life on September 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Six days until I go back to work, and I am jamming all kinds of appointments into those last few days. meeting with the pastor about FH’s baptism haircut (which is desperately needed) chiropractor FH’s three month checkup eye appointment We are also having a four-year-old birthday party for LM on Sunday, and somewhere in [...]
Homemade Lasagna
Posted in family, food on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday LM and I made lasagna–homemade noodles and all. The plan was to save half of it for a freezer meal, but it is almost already gone. So much for that.
10 Days and Counting
Posted in family, life on September 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
10 Days until I go back to work…I’m not anxious about it or anything, am I?! I was reading this blog Working Moms Against Guilt and thinking about working for a paycheck and being a mother. Honestly, for me the emotion is not guilt. Guilt implies that I think I am doing something wrong by [...]
Twelve Days and Counting
Posted in family, food, household on September 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Twelve days until I go back to work. I know about pregnancy nesting. There must be “going back to work” nesting as well. So far today I have: wiped down door handles and door frames cleaned the glass in the patio door made bread with LM organized the spices cooked a new recipe added additional [...]
