From the category archives:
I’m the oldest of three kids.
Eric is the youngest of three kids.
Years ago, when we first started talking about having children, we both agreed that we weren’t such fans of the three dynamic. I’ve seen families where it’s worked amazingly, but in our families, it usually meant that one was being ganged up by two. [...]
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It’s taken me about five weeks to even start writing this. I don’t have any real reason other than the fact that my arms feel unbearably empty and naked when she’s not in them, and it’s taken me about five weeks to learn how to position her so I can type semi-decently. Well, that, and [...]
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Every night before going to bed (and between the ten thousand bathroom trips), I wonder if this will be the last night of being just the two of us.
I’m 38.5 weeks now, not that I’m counting or anything. There have been several nights where I’ve been almost certain that we’d end up in the hospital, [...]
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I know I’ve talked about not taking many pictures of myself during this pregnancy, and it’s true, I haven’t. That is probably because my hair is a crazy mess many days, which ends up making me self conscious in front of the camera. It’s all a bit ridiculous and a little hypocritical because I always [...]
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The last two and half years have been filled with limbos. I spent so much time waiting to see if I was pregnant, if the pregnancies were viable, waiting to get the clearance to try again when they weren’t, waiting for countless lab results. So much waiting, excruciating waiting.
But those waits are of the past, [...]
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Did you know that regular showers are exhausting? I didn’t, not until the last few weeks, but they are! Never mind a shower combined with actually doing my hair, something that’s seldom happening these days.
I won’t bore you with that kind of showering talk, though I do have a not really related aside. When I [...]
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This baby has taken over parts of my brain. No, really. When I try to remember what I thought about before I was pregnant this time around, my mind freezes for just a few seconds. Some of that may have to do with being in a fundamentally familiar place–Texas is home, after all, and Cambridge [...]
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I’ve been counting my life in weeks since May. It’s been a flurry–things that were months ago suddenly seem like they were yesterday or, on the other extremes, years ago.
It hasn’t been that many weeks since we left Cambridge, but my time there is already starting to fade. But then a crisp memory will rise [...]
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