Eek, this is even later that it was supposed to be… I posted it around noon - or so I thought. Then I left to scrub the new duplex, came back, and found I CLICKED SAVE INSTEAD OF PUBLISH. My mind… she is a-going…
Sorry this is a bit late - and it’s the first in [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on July 24th, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Going? What kind of word is that?
Going.
Going. Boing.
My mind is Going.
And that about sums it up.
Benjamin is starting to get better during the night. He is waking up at 5 or 6 pretty regularly, and then wanting to nurse. Sometimes I tell him no, there’s no sun yet. Sometimes I pretend [...]
Filed under: The Mommy, The News on July 23rd, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Happy 234th Birthday, Honey!
(We go all out for birthdays. We get dressed up, I serve a divine cake that isn’t falling apart at all, and we go out and buy brand-spankin’ new candles. We would never combine the candles from our 23rd and 24th birthdays so that their sum might, if you tilted [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on July 21st, 2008 | 8 Comments »
It doesn’t hurt like a fresh wound. It’s bothersome like a scab.
It was a fresh wound on Monday. It was real. And I cried. But now it’s more like a scab.
It gets brushed. Like when I slid into bed last Wednesday night and remembered how I had rested my hand upon [...]
Filed under: The Miscarriage, The Mommy on July 18th, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Irony: an outcome of events contrary to what was, or might have been, expected.
Coincidence: a striking occurrence of two or more events at one time apparently by mere chance.
Providence: God, esp. when conceived as omnisciently directing the universe and the affairs of humankind with wise benevolence.
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We agreed: we disagreed. But [...]
Filed under: The God, The Miscarriage on July 18th, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Not on Wednesday, when I knew something was going wrong.
Not on Thursday, my day in waiting.
Not on Friday, when the blood tests showed the future.
A bit on Saturday, the contractions hurt so badly.
Not on Sunday, the day after it was over.
I cried on Monday.
Alone in the ultrasound room, looking at an empty womb, I prayed [...]
Filed under: The Miscarriage, The Mommy on July 14th, 2008 | 24 Comments »
I held out hope when the bleeding started.
I reassured myself when I made the appointment.
I smiled comfortably while I wrapped the sheet around me and climbed up on the table.
But when the small talk faded into silence, I knew.
There was no labeling of baby parts. There was no recording of a heart beat.
There was [...]
Filed under: The God, The Miscarriage, The Mommy on July 10th, 2008 | 46 Comments »
So this is what the Fourth of July looked like at our house:
Benjamin: Didn’t sleep well due to his fever, so Josh offered to take him so I could get a bit more sleep. When I finally rolled out of bed, I was looking forward to my usual open-armed-running-hug I usually get from my baby. [...]
Filed under: The Benjamin, The Mommy, The Olivia on July 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, Olivia’s yelling at me to “COME ON MOMMY, LET’S BUILD A HOUSE REALLY QUICK!!!” so I better make this as brief as possible.
We went to the park on the 3rd to celebrate Olivia’s third birthday with Josh’s family, who had come up for the occasion.
Josh’s dad promptly got himself stuck in the tunnel slide.
Have [...]
Filed under: Meet-and-Greet-Mondays on July 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve decided to drop the “themed” and “organized” approach to the Recipe Swap for this week. Perhaps this shall be the new norm, and every now and then we’ll have a theme. Your thoughts?
I found a new recipe last week for chicken pot pie; it was my first attempt, and it went over [...]
Filed under: Recipe Swap '08 on July 3rd, 2008 | 12 Comments »
