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A (partial) Day in the Life of a Mother With Two Young Children and Postpartum Depression

4:40 am wake up because I think I hear a noise outside. I go down to investigate. Twice. The mystery remains unsolved. 6:15 wake up to the sound of my daughter's voice. She had previously been instructed to play in her room upon waking until we come to get her (since the past few days have been ...

Love Notes/My Reply

You may remember my recent discovery, in which I was able to give new life to (/soak in the beauty of) my husband's old love notes. Well, it happened again. Except, this time, the love notes were from yours truly. I know. Right? You didn't think I had it in me. Ahhhh, way back in old '06 when ...

Love (notes) and marriage.

This evening, as my husband was putting the baby to bed, I went down to the basement to go through our belongings. I am cleaning things out because (gasp!) we are planning to move. But that's another story for another day. So in an effort to purge all things (I) deemed unnecessary, I took a few moments ...

And baby Mii makes 3

Funny story: Just this evening, K and I had a hankering for some good old fashioned Donkey Kong Country. (This, apparently, is what happens to people who have been cooped up for 72 hours.) As a kid, Donkey Kong was my THING. I played my Supernintendo game so often, and with such skill, that I beat the game within a ...

So, I totalllllly planned to write,

and share pictures of my afternoon as a Disney Princess, until I accidentally conjured Lucille Ball. You see, if you are not my facebook friend, or husband, or parent, you probably don't know that I spent the evening flooding my basement. Let me just start by saying this: I'm married to a good guy. A sweet, tutu buying Princess embracing good guy. And, this good guy ...