What is better than slow dancing with your sweet baby to your wedding song on a cold, quiet Sunday morning? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbm3bwlCAfk] Not much. Not much at all.
While you were out
Shout out loud! Bang on some pots and pans! It's been far too quiet around here. This week was challenging for me, as it was my first week back to work in the New Year, as well as my first week of working every day since I was placed on bedrest a whole, long March ago. So, this week, I succumbed ...
I can honestly say
that in the 267 days since my little button first graced us with her presence, tonight is the very first time that I am not ready to let her go to sleep. Someone started teaching again, today. Any guesses as to whom I'm referring? And on a related note, that thing about absence making the heart grow fonder? So true. So so ...
On Gratitude and Giving
As a new mother, there are so many things that I am grateful for on a day to day, minute to minute, moment by moment basis. I am grateful for my baby's smiles. I am grateful when she says "mama" and looks at me with such love. I am grateful that she is finally starting to grow some hair. I am ...
On a snowy Saturday
you don't have to change from your pajamas. You can stuff your belly with brownies and brie cheese and it feels good because you have nowhere else to be. You can linger over your mug of cocoa, from your perch on the nursery floor, and laugh with your full heart and full belly, at the giggling, squealing little pink person before you. You kiss ...
she grows
Once upon a time, I gave birth to a tiny, sweet baby. And then, I turned my back for just one small second, and my newborn turned into an 8 and a half month old girl. A real person. And suddenly, she no longer fit in the blankets that once swaddled her tight; She no longer fit in the undershirts that ...
happy new
Full disclosure: I've now written about 15 different "first lines" for this post. None are sticking. None seem to fit. None will do justice to all that I am feeling. It is the first morning of the first day of the new year, and we have so much to celebrate, but I am tongue-tied. Going from 2010 to 2011 was an incredibly, and unexpectedly, emotional ...
2 bloggers blogging (or, not blogging, as the case may be)
I am sorry I didn't blog yesterday. I have a good excuse. My computer broke. It's at the Mac hospital. It misses you, so! Mama Gaga of The Gaga Diaries, a favorite mommy blog of mine, didn't blog yesterday. She had a good excuse. Her water broke. She's at the baby delivery hospital. Okay, pun stops here. Baby Gaga was born!!!! I am quite excited, for ...
Save the Date, the remix
So, do you remember this from, oh, about 6 months back? You know, the days when the baby's 1st birthday party was nearly a whole year away? Well, far away it is no more. As my dear mommy friend remarked recently, we are about to be bidding farewell to the year in which we gave birth. This means that we are ...
“I never not wanted it”
This morning, as the dogs snored from their perch in the windowsill, and the husband readied the house for the impending snowstorm, and the babe slept quietly by my side, I caught up with some old friends. And you know that scene up there? You know, the one in "Ghost Town", when Aidan and Carrie find themselves on the ...
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