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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

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 … Read more

… 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 … Read more

Today I asked Casey what he thought about my hopes for the birth of this little one.   I wanted to make sure that he was “on board” so that we didn’t find ourselves at the hospital with two different game plans, should I go into labor early.   He actually trumped me one, and … Read more

As I hit 31 weeks of pregnancy, 14 weeks of those in maternity clothes, I have come to a new  craving for anything other than Target and Motherhood Maternity.   Enter ChulaMama, the super-trendy and hip “all-in-one” maternity and baby store. Let me note from the start that hip and trendy come with a price … Read more

I will be 31 weeks on Tuesday, and already the crazed-nesting instinct it kicking in.   On Friday, my sister came over to help me go through all of Kenny’s out-grown clothes.   They were in an mess of bags and boxes, not all quite clean and not in any kind of size order.   … Read more

Kenny sings to himself all the time.   It’s usually a Veggie Tales song or a Boz song or something from his Rolly Pollie class.   I’m talking “This Little Light of Mine” or “Circle, Triangle, Square” or “The More We Get Together.”     Sweet stuff.   That changed today. While I was getting … Read more

Today was one of the glorious days on the Chesapeake Bay when you know that winter has quit for good, and that Spring is really here; our Heron  returned for the first time since October!   It was the cause of much excitement from all involved:   Kenny ran shouting out the back door, “Look! … Read more