Things I want baby to know #119
You only have to be you. We all need room to be who we are at every moment of our lives without excuses, apologies, or anything else. Know that you […]
Random Bits
In the category Sometimes a Lack of Sleep Makes You Terribly Ditzy: The battery in my electronic car key went out. Lamenting to BF, I said, “I guess I am […]
Hush!
This past Friday’s Body Image class was on Parents, Peers, and Body Image. Usually this class is a heartbreaker for me, personal stories illustrating how parents can go awry, negatively […]
What We've Learned Along the Way
Our first year as parents will officially be celebrated on January 26, 2010. Baby will be 17 months that day. We will have been a family for 12 months, and, […]
Battle of the screensavers.
Once the baby came home, BF moved his office to the house. Our computers are on opposite walls, our backs to each other when we are working. When you walk […]
14 months old, 9 months with us
The littlest kid is growing and growing and growing. He’s tall; he’s walking; he says daddy and doggie; he mostly sleeps through the night; he’s opinionated and curious, fiesty and […]
Baby Proofing
There is one cabinet in our home that is not baby proofed. It’s in baby’s bathroom and has towels in it. I kinda think the kid needs at least one […]
Baby outwits BF
BF was going crazy. Baby had figured out how to pull the air conditioning registers out of their hole and had taken to A. crawling around the house, pushing them […]
as luck would have it
“He’s such a lucky boy.” Baby and I have been stopped by a well meaning town resident who I vaguely know. He’s not the first to say this to us. “We […]
Family: a revelation
Once, when I was 29, a student asked me how old I was. It was the beginning of the school year, and she was a freshman so I was new […]
