Today, I cried while slow dancing with my little girl. We were listening to a very special CD, For Our Children, and as we swayed back and forth to Carole King singing "Child of Mine", I began to cry. You see, I am getting a bit wistful, a tad sentimental, about this whole "My newborn baby is actually now one-whole-year-old ...
Love, Baby Ever After
Hi, Friends- Baby here! Pleased to know you! So nice to make your acquaintance! I know we haven't been formally introduced, but I'm only 7 months old, so I've just learned to write. Mommy tells me the best things about you. I have a feeling she's told you a little bit about me, too. I just got back from my very first ...
While the cat’s away…
This week, I will embarking upon a great new challenge; I will be attempting to leave the house, for a few hours a day, and to be on a schedule. You see, this week, I will be substitute teaching. Because I was put on bedrest in my 9th month of pregnancy, and because I am a teacher, I have not worked since March. Officially, ...
goodnight bunnies
"Before you were conceived I wanted you Before you were born I loved you Before you were here an hour I would give my life for you This is the miracle of life." -quote by Maureen Hawkins Going by the old handy-dandy pregnancy calculators, it was exactly one year ago today that my daughter first made her grand entrance into my womb. I remember that day well, as ...
This Thing Called Love
Believe it or not, when my daughter was born, I was, instantly, the calm, low-key mom that I had dreamed of being. I didn’t fret when the nurses took her for her routine check-ups. I did not ask about her weight, Or temperature, Or level of cuteness. Actually, that is a lie. I did ask about her cuteness, Meaning, When anyone new came into the ...
Over the Rainbow
Somewhere, over the rainbow, way up high, there's a land that I heard of, once in a lullaby. If the Sex and the City ladies are my best adult girlfriends, then Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz gang were my dear childhood playmates. You see, for me, The Wizard of Oz was more than a film. More than a musical, or ...
You know that your husband was meant to have a daughter…
...when you catch him singing, "I'm a Burpie girl, in a Burpie world, my bib is plastic, it's fantastic. Come on baby, let's go party, ah ah ah, yeah." And that, my friends, is why I'm sure that my daughter will be a daddy's girl. And that, my friends, is why I couldn't be happier.
The Milk of the Mortals
disclaimer: This post addresses some of the gorier details of breastfeeding. Anyone at all squeamish, or male, enter at your own risk. As I have mentioned many a time before, I am a milk machine. That, for those of you who are not native to the land in mom, means that I am breastfeeding my daughter. For the first 3 ...
millions of peaches, peaches for me.
So, for the past 2 days, the baby has been laughing... ...at the word "peaches". Yes, peaches. Why do I feel like she's in on some inside joke, and I'm stuck on the outside? I guess this is mommyhood for you. The baby always gets the last laugh.
Toga! Toga! Toga!
For the past few days, the baby has, quite inexplicably, woken up with one of her arms completely undressed. At some time during the night, she has been able to de-swaddle herself, and get one arm out of the sleeve and through the neck of her nightgown. I know, right? I must admit, I'm pretty impressed that she's ...
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