As soon as she sat her baby, who looked to be almost a year old, in the little firetruck, he screamed, twisted, turned red, and tried to claw his way out. So the mother picked him up, and she made her way through the overpriced, cutesy kid haircut place to a chair she could [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Give a Mother a Break
Posted in mothering, parenting, public parenting on January 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Don’t Let the Fetus Win
Posted in pregnancy on January 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Alright, little two inch long sort-of-baby fetus creature–I’m not going to take this lying down anymore (under a blanket on the couch, begging my kids not to breathe their chicken salad breath near me or drool peanut butter spit on my cheek before I run into the bathroom). You can’t defeat me any longer. [...]
And This is the Part When I Swear Never to Get Pregnant Again . . . For the Third Time
Posted in family, friends, pregnancy on January 12, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I’ve actually written quite a bit on here lately, despite what that nagging calendar on the sidebar says. But, happily for anyone who chances upon this page, I have kept most of it marked draft because there seems to be very little happening in my head or my life unrelated to throwing up and [...]
Just a Little Bit Pregnant
Posted in family, mothering, parenting, pregnancy on January 3, 2008 | 18 Comments »
That blob is, so they tell me, not a seahorse attempting to grow limbs, but a little tiny baby-to-be. 8 weeks down, 32 million weeks to go.