We arrived home safe and sound a few hours ago, and I am exhausted. What a wonderful trip! Casey, Kenny, Dudley and I went to the Outer Banks with two other families – there were 6 adults, 8 kids (ranging in age from 5 weeks to 10 years old) and two large-breed dogs […]
It suddenly hit me this weekend that I am going to have a baby. A real baby. For those of you reading who are new to this blog, I have been virtually pregnant since January 2007. My first miscarriage was in March, I was pregnant again by June, lost twins in July, and […]
It turns out that all the c-section slots are full for the entire week of my actual due date, so I am now on the waiting list for that week, and scheduled for the following week… one thing I wasn’t counting on was having this baby late! My OB thinks there is a very […]
I’m so glad I had the good sense to write “Baby’s Birthday!” in pencil on my calendar. Casey and I had an incredible meeting with my OB yesterday, and after a full exam and conversation, he sees no reason why I can’t try for a natural birth! I am floating. I feel […]
Last night, as I was running around making final preparations for a dinner party with some of Casey’s colleagues, Casey mercifully got Kenny out from underfoot and went down to the dock for a little pre-dinner fishing. And after two and a half hours of catching nothing but seaweed on Sunday, they caught their […]
The a trail of mulch, sand and freshly cut grass from the porch door to the kitchen… the wine rack holding a merlot, a malbec and Casey’s fishing pole… the container of nightcrawlers next to the yogurt in the fridge… the baseball in Kenny’s bed alongside his Baa to fall asleep with… the t-ball set […]
We took Kenny to his first baseball game of the season on Thursday… this will be his third season attending Oriole’s games! Ok, four, if you count the summer he went inside the womb… We sat through the first five innings or so in a rainy cloud, but it was actually warm enough that […]
Today was a busy day for Kenny and I. We spent the morning with our local MOPs group getting ready for a fundraiser… eight moms and twenty-some kids under age four in a our co-chair’s living room. I was one of the “kid-watchers” and I have to admit that after a while I […]
Humpty Who? A Crash Course in 80 Nursery Rhymes for Clueless Moms and Dads, by Jennifer Griffen; Published by Workman Publishing, 2007 In the introduction to this charming and actually very useful handbook, author Jennifer Griffin describes the scene the first time she tried to soothe her newborn baby with a song: the only thing […]
… so far away. My due date, that is. Only 8 weeks to go (if I stick with the scheduled c-section; 9 until the actual due date). It feels like forever and it feels like way too soon all at once. I am finally starting to really feel BIG. As […]