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Happy Birthday
Today would have been my Grammy’s 96th birthday, which is hard to fathom. I wonder what she would think of our world and our lives if she could sit down with me today for a cup of coffee. I am...
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Today I Am…
… in the second trimester! …sick and tired of dysgeusia! Most pregnant women expect morning sickness and backaches, but few have heard about dysgeusia, or the “bad taste problem.” This surprisingly...
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My Single Issue
Here, on my personal website, I’m going to write down my justification for voting the way I will tomorrow. If you, on YOUR personal website, would like to write about why I’m wrong or stupid or horrid,...
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Uncollected Thoughts
How am I feeling today? Grateful My current class has some discipline and staying-on-task issues. At the beginning of the period I had to gently reprimand/redirect them for acting like hooligans. Just...
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Three Really Nice Things
Yesterday was the rehearsal and dinner for my sister’s wedding, and tomorrow is the wedding! I hope it wasn’t a faux pas to wear white (or rather, oatmeal) to the rehearsal — but since the bride was in...
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Gestational Math: 27 Weeks!
Today, I am 27 weeks pregnant! Obviously, any given date in a pregnancy is essentially arbitrary. We don’t know the exact day of conception, we can’t know the exact day of unscheduled birth, and each...
View ArticleWhimsical Winter Wonderland, Part 1
At long last, a post about Meredith and Aaron’s beautiful wedding! Meredith and Aaron are high school sweethearts who met in band (she a horn player, he a saxophone), who then went to college together,...
View Article34! Also: Brilliant Business Idea
I’m told that one’s third trimester baby can hear and recognize their parents’ voices, and that if you play a particular kind of music at this point in your pregnancy your baby is likely to find that...
View ArticleProtected: How Henry Came: A Birth Story
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View ArticleHappy Birthday!
Sometimes, when you cry, you bleat like a little sheep. And sometimes when you get hungry, you snort like a little piggy. One of my favorite things is how you reach up, as if asking for a hug or to be...
View ArticleTwo Months Old on the Fourth of July
Today is Henry’s two-month birthday. It is also his first major holiday: Independence Day! You’ll notice that he had three wardrobe changes suitable for the holiday (there was actually a fourth...
View ArticleThe Difference a Year Makes
One year ago, all I knew for sure was that our most recent attempt to summon the stork (thank you, Piers Anthony, for enriching my collection of euphemisms at an early age) had been unsuccessful. As I...
View ArticleShoes for My Stocking
I used to try to write a “December wish list” (my birthday is in December as well), for the fun of window shopping if not to provide actual shopping inspiration. I’d gotten away from doing so in the...
View ArticleFourth Month Photos
H has now been among us for four months! Apparently four months is a big benchmark. Within twenty-four hours of his birthday, H learned how to (deliberately) blow raspberries, began rolling over from...
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Our Five-Month-Old
On Friday, H turned five months old, but his Mama and Daddy were too sick with a stomach bug to write about or photograph him then, so it got put off until today. H weighs 16 pounds and 4 pounds and is...
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Regarding Henry’s Baptism
Today, Henry got baptized! If you would like, you can watch the entire church service at the end of this post (or fast-forward to the twelve-minute mark if you only have time for the ceremony). He was...
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My Six-Month-Old Boy
Yesterday, my little boy turned six months old. How the time flies! He didn’t get to have any cake, but — in preparation for the idea that he might want cake in six more months — he did have his first...
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Herding Cats, With Pencils and Word Processors
Although I’m wise enough to recognize that this is not going to be the year that I write 50,000 words toward a novel’s first draft, I was pretty pleased to once more be behind the wheel of my school’s...
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Henry’s Thankful Post
This being his first Thanksgiving, Henry wanted to share a few of the things for which he is thankful every day. There’s his seahorse, who glows and plays soft music for him to help him fall asleep:...
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