In four weeks, give or take some days, I will give birth. To a baby. Another one.At this point in my first pregnancy, I was totally prepared for the arrival of the baby and...
When I was about seven years old, I hurt another child. I'd like to say that I didn't mean to, that it was an accident, but it wasn't, not really.It was the kind of...
Apparently, it was Blog Reader Appreciation Day yesterday. As might well have been expected, I missed it.I've been a terrible blog citizen these past months. I still visit and read blogs - old ones,...
The other day, Wonderbaby tried to run away from home. For the second time.I fully expected that at some point in our family life, she would make a runaway attempt. I made my own...
"I no go pottie""That's fine. If you don't have to go, that's fine.""I fine. I no have to go."There's a loud rip as the diaper is torn and yanked out from between her legs,...
I am having one of those days. Actually, it's the second such day, which means that I have been having one of those days for about 24 hours too long now. I am having...
In my inbox this morning:The Vlasic Stork Is Calling All May Babies! One May-Born Baby Will Win Big With Vlasic Pickles! May Is National Pickle Month! In celebration of National Pickle Month, Vlasic® Pickles...
There's a reason, I suppose, why the airport people were looking at me funny when I left New York Saturday afternoon: am pregnant. AM VERY PREGNANT. And women who are well into their 8th...
Miss this:Miss this so much.Because this?Not quite a sufficient substitute.(Loving up some of the most awesomest wimmins on the interwebs, however, went some long way to helping with banal mommy-misses-child blues. Some looong way.)(Yes,...
Updated below.If you had been following me for the last 24 hours - which, you know, you might have been, who knows? - this is what you would have seen and heard:April 1, 12:35pm:...
