So you all know by now how wonderful I’m feeling — physically.
And for most of the time, I’m feeling great emotionally as well. Throughout the day I laugh, play with the girls, thoroughly enjoy the scrumptiousness that is a newborn baby, and wonder in amazement about how well everyone is adjusting and how smoothly things are going.
But then […]
Filed in: pregnancy • self-reflection | March 30, 2009
I went to church today and you would think I walked in with three chickens on my head for the looks and comments I got.
No, I don’t feel like I have to get up and jump right back into things just days after having a baby. I’ve been taking it easy — really easy — for a week and […]
Our third daughter, born at home Monday, March 23 at 11:46 a.m. weighing 7 lbs 13 oz and measuring 20.5 inches.
{Making you click below for the story, because it’s long. And not everybody wants to read about the wonderfulness of an intact perineum.}
Filed in: birth stories • family • health • pregnancy | March 26, 2009
This morning I looked like this:
Tonight, that bump? Is totally removable.
Don’t worry, full details of all the in-between stuff are coming. But I thought I should let you know, for those of you who don’t Tweet, that she arrived today just before noon and is doing wonderfully.
The girl we will be calling Carrie for Internet purposes is […]
Life is really enjoyable right now. I mean, I’m kinda really starting to want this baby to be on the OUTSIDE of me, and Matt is gone a lot in the evenings, working on the duplexes, but, other than that, I don’t have much to complain about, and I do have so much to be […]
Filed in: family • home education • just life • parenting | March 20, 2009
Sariah just said, “Let’s pretend this toast is icky but we have to eat it.” Jane readily agreed and it is turning into a pretty elaborate game.
I know kids use play to work through things that happen to them as a way of trying to understand (or recover from, depending.) I see mine do this in […]
If mopping my floor is tweet-worthy, then cleaning out my fridge is totally blog-worthy.
It hasn’t been done since we moved here. In December. Yeah.
Here is what I have to say about both projects: That is a lot of work for something that is so short-lived!
I said that within hearing range of my 5-year-old when I […]
Filed in: just life | March 18, 2009
I am an extremely skeptical person. I think I’m getting worse with age too. I’m especially skeptical of anything that is claimed to be some kind of miracle cure. I don’t care if it is “natural” or not either. I just find myself rolling my eyes an awful lot rather than jump right on the […]
Not the kind Matt’s busy crunching, with the assistance of TurboTax and about ten billion Lowe’s receipts.
The fun kind, the kind where we get to discuss cervixes. Well, not cervixES. Just one cervix. Mine, specifically.
First Baby: My cervix was dilated exactly NOT A BIT by my 37 week appointment. 5 days later, I had a baby.
Second Baby: […]
Filed in: pregnancy | March 16, 2009
Why is it that when I’m talking with someone in real life, we can see a particular issue completely differently, and yet still communicate respect for each other, be nonjudgmental and totally understanding of the other person’s perspective, and not feel uncomfortable in the least … yet any time I try to write out my […]
Filed in: health • self-reflection | March 13, 2009
Hi, I'm Kate.
I have a propensity for rambling at length about parenting, attempting crafting projects far beyond my capabilities, staying up entirely too late, and craving sugary treats. This is my journal.
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