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The day starts with some coffee and chocolate milk on the deck… Then Daddy and Kenny take off for their weekly breakfast date while Mommy hits prenatal yoga… Close encounters of the reptile kind (click on this for a better view – a four foot black rat snake that we first saw right on the…

As tends to be the trend in our house, a manic day with Kenny is often immediately followed by one of the sweetest days ever.   Perhaps part tender effort from me to be extra-nurturing, part concentrated effort on the rascal’s part to be less rascally… whatever the cause, it works. We had a companionable…

Yesterday Kenny woke up with  a little gunk in his left eye.   By noon it was fervently pink, and by the time he woke up from his nap, both eyes were completely glued shut with yellow and green ick.   He started screaming and I ran upstairs, my stomach in my throat.   It…

This weekend Casey’s older brother Dan and his son Ryan came to visit.   It was non-stop fishing, crabbing, basketball, baseball and fun.   Kenny, who thinks the sun rises and sets  on 8-year-old Ryan, became his shadow.   He was alternately  sweetly shy (as in, “You wanna bite of this cracker, Ryan?”) to  charmingly…

Last night I made tacos for dinner.   This is not remarkable (except for the fact that I can count on my fingers the number of times I’ve made something from a box for dinner instead of something from scratch…) and shouldn’t hold any interest for blogging purposes. Unfortunately, there is a story.   About…

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…