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 ...
Is it clear which one of us is the preschool teacher?
Husband: "I saw the cutest little girl in the checkout line earlier."Moi: "Aw, cute."Husb: "She was so cute, smiling at me. I played peak-a-boo with her."Me: "Aw, sweet! How old was she?"Husb: "Hmm. Good question. Well, she had teeth."
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 ...
“You know what?
It smells like girl in here." -the husband, walking into the house tonight. I mean, duh.
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 ...
Um, hello,
what in the world has happened to this game? And better question, mom, do you still have mine?
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